Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...
Some stores and showrooms have "invisible glass" windows, but these are parabolic panes such that reflections are bent downward and absorbed in a baffle of black cloth. Glass such as Katharine Blodgett's, which actually obliterates reflection at its surface, could be used as an invisible protection for paintings in galleries and museums. Other possible uses: automobile windshields, shop windows, show cases, cameras, spectacles, telescopes, field glasses...
Wanted for alleged misrepresentation of imported goods by the Cambridge police, "Peter Geer," a legitimate cloth salesman of good Cambridge family, was picked up in Claverly Hall for trespassing Friday afternoon by Colonel Charles Apted, Head of the University Police...
Last week a flashy Manhattan haberdasher, Marty Walker, had the "honor and distinction" of advertising that his was "the first concern in the entire world privileged to present MEN'S HEAVY-WEIGHT*OVERCOATS of the world's most precious fabric, 100% PURE STROOCK VICUÑA CLOTH." Broadway crowds stopped to gape at the model coat which 60 vicuñas died to make. One man actually ordered a coat. Price...
...These "Heavyweight Overcoats" are made from 35-ounce-per-yard cloth. Stroock & Co. has made a lightweight (20-oz.) vicuña cloth since...