Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With that, Sir John, who had discarded his kingly robes for a more conventional frock coat, slipped on an overcoat of large black and white checks, pulled a cloth cap down over his eyes, and walked towards the stage entrance...
...dummy American" manufactured out of whole cloth by Franklin, and the age which produced him, has been bandied about by the subsequent writers until by the time of Walt Whitman there is nothing to do but to paw over the shredded remains. In him Mr. Lawrence finds "all that false exuberance. All those lists of things boiled in one pudding-cloth". Whitman is at the end of the road, at the very verge of the precipice...
...industry as they are commonly thought of by Americans, scarcely exist, and what there is of them is centered in Manila. There we have factories for the manufacture of cigars and cigarettes, for the refining of a portion of our raw sugar, and for the manufacture of hemp into cloth. But large scale industry is little known there. The development of the country has not reached that stage which requires...
...moment ago I mentioned the manufacture of hemp. In the United States, hemp connotes rope, but in the Philippines much of our clothing is made of hemp cloth. In fact, the light hemp cloth is to our body what the straw hat is to our head. The weather there is very warm, rarely below 72 degrees, rarely above 86 degrees, which indicates that we have a small range of temperature throughout the year...
...Historic Trees of Massachusetts", by James Raymond Simmons. A beautiful book delightfully illustrated, printed on exceptionally good paper, bound in boards with cloth backs and constituting a wonderful gift book. This item is offered at $1.85 postpaid, the regular price being...