Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...niches and pile book upon book onto our outstretched mind and carry the whole precarious pile, maybe 20 tottering books high into Emerson 105, take a seat, and for three hours pull out one book from somewhere in the middle and then another, like the old table cloth trick, and then the bell rings and you drop all the books on the floor and so much for formal education until next year...
HADRIAN VII is a deft dramatization by Peter Luke of fact and fantasy in the life of Frederick William Rolfe, a would-be priest who dreamed of being called first to the cloth and then to the throne of St. Peter-becoming the second English...
...sleek and lightweight, lustrous and warm. "You can do anything with mink because it handles as easily as cloth," says Ernest Graf, executive vice president of Ben Kahn Furs Corp. "Mink is durable. Mink is beautiful...
...thinks that she has "a mysterious quality - a bit of the Shanghai Express." But she squanders her assets. "She wears a ghastly bright red lipstick that kills the color in her face. She does not wear any eye make up and therefore looks mousy. She buys brightly colored, constricting clothes." Blass' prescription is to dress her in Edwardian or Russian-inspired clothes. For daytime receptions, he would like to see Pat in a round-cornered cloth coat, with a Russian sable stole and hat to soften the lines of her face...
...make an average of eight diaper changes a day. The problem was then turned over to production engineers, who devised a high-speed, block-long assembly line that brought the price down to 5½?. That is considerably more than the cost of buying and home-laundering a standard cloth diaper-which works out to an average 1 ½? per change -but within competitive range of the 310 or so typically charged by pick-up-and-delivery diaper services...