Word: cloths
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Evidently expecting a great conflagration, most of the force turned up and were received by great cheers from the assembled members of the House. These fire-eaters quickly put an end to the festivities by tearing off the remaining remnants of the cloth. Careless throwing of lighted cigarettes was announced as the probable cause of the fire...
...Deal's policy of lowering tariffs by reciprocal trade treaties. In Washington, President Roosevelt had upped the tariff on Japanese cotton cloth by a thumping 42%. Certain results of this move will be to put more money in the pockets of U. S. textile millers, make U. S. consumers pay more for nightgowns, children's underwear, men's handkerchiefs. A possible result may be the loss to U. S. cotton-growers of an appreciable part of their best market. The President's explanation of this set-back to his trade-expansion program was that he proposes...
...snap the animals in all their natural poses. Tons of rock, earth, sand, grass, tree trunks and branches were shipped to the museum, where they were treated with a preservative and the African settings reproduced piece by piece. Artificial berries, leaves and flowers were made of paper, wax, cloth, celluloid. In the gorilla group there are 75,000 artificial leaves and berries, some 20,000 fragments of genuine African flora. Museum officials were confident last week that no visitor could distinguish the imitation from the real...
...high time to abandon the idea that legislation can emanate only from those trained in the law. . . . There are many men of the cloth who are good businessmen. Why not this fall elect some eminent divine as President of the United States...
...protect the long Italian line back to the coast. In his tent last week he sat reading dispatches, wishing he were further south enjoying the fun in Addis Ababa. Up to his tent rode a bedraggled, bearded native on muleback carrying a twisted twig and a scrap of white cloth. Stiffly dismounting, the blackamoor bowed low to the ground in token of submission. It was Ras Seyoum, onetime ruler of Tigre Province, the "Black Fox of Ethiopia." ablest of the north Ethiopian chieftains. For six months he had held Italy's armies at bay. Alone he had arrived...