Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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American Woolen Co. (world's leading cloth manufacturer), loss $1,262,263, as compared to 1927 profit...
...this panorama occasionally. It is a tolerably good answer to those who wail about modern literature (and who don't read it). Most of these authors should be collected in their original bindings and the lady will, of course, have to do over her library. There will be many cloth books in bright colors and paper labels and the decorator will have to use uncommon skill. Somehow I cannot see Barbellion in calf or Sherwood Anderson in levant. Hardy and France? Perhaps...
...reports that at 5 P.M. Dr. George Kovacs, 55, and married of 1799 Dorchester Avenue while in his office and working on the foot of a patient at 125 Tremont Street, the patient jumped up and struck the doctor on the head with an iron bolt done up in cloth. He then rushed out leaving his overcoat. He is described as a man about 30, 5 feet 6, weight 150, with light brown hair. Dr. Kovacs was taken to the Haymarket Relief Hospital in our Ambulance and treated for 2 lacerated wounds of the scalp. The man wanted left...
...very determined little Virginian will board the White Star liner Calgaric bound for the Mediterranean, for the Holy Land. He will be dressed in the black cloth of the clergy. Undoubtedly newsphotographers will snap his picture, reporters take down his parting words. In one of his suitcases will be a parchment scroll hailing him as the most significant U. S. contributor to religious progress for 1928. He is Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South...
...When the fangs puncture animal, fish or reptile the venom (in most snakes a yellowish fluid) is squeezed, like a hypodermic injection, into the victim's flesh. Hindus defang their serpents by searing the jaws with hot irons. Others rip the fangs out with pincers or flick a cloth at the snake's head until the fangs are caught in the cloth and yanked out. Defanged snakes quickly grow new fangs...