Word: cottone
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their own hand. Boss Ed Kelly was still keeping mum, hoping for a draft call. If he did not run himself, Ed's choice would probably be Gael Sullivan, his onetime administrative assistant and now second assistant postmaster general. The choice of his underlings (who did not cotton to absentee Sullivan): big, smart State's Attorney William J. Tuohy...
Henceforth importers in the U.S., which uses 40% of the world's cocoa, will buy at Britain's price. (Britain also announced that state trading in cotton will be permanent policy...
...store, in the days before the AAA messed the cotton business up with red tape, we sold "salt pork" under name of "bacon," "side bacon," and, to the vulgar, "sow belly." That was the only meat we sold and, naturally, I assume that it is your fatback...
...Duke of Windsor and his Duchess arrived safely in Manhattan-the Duke in a blue suit (and cotton sweater and plaid shirt), the Duchess in what she helpfully described to some 50 welcoming reporters and cameramen as "a blue wool suit with a red wool jersey, a striped silk hat-I guess that's what you call it-with a veil, and a black box calf and alligator handbag." Also a mink stole. But no jewels. (Explained the Duke, whose Duchess got stolen blind back in Britain: "Well, really, there wouldn't be many left to bring...
Initiates may find the real meat of Bal Nègre in its elaborate ritual dances and act-long, story-crammed ballets. More casual observers may find these somewhat arty, and cotton much more to Bal Nègre's gay, stylish folk dances-and to its spoof of the ragtime and jazz cavortings of not-so-tropical climes...