Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day constables cautioned Belgrave Square traffic to go slowly and quietly. Carpenters coming to work on a building two doors away beamed: ''Lor' love you, we'll put cotton wool on our hammers if the Duke wants us to." In the sun on No. 3's front stoop a big black cat leisurely washed itself. It was raining when Edward of Wales arrived to pay his respects to his latest nephew...
...time to delivering lectures for a Florida real estate company at $250 a lecture. Bryan sat in an arm chair on a float and talked to the crowd that lined the shore of a lagoon. A narrow strip of water separated Bryan from the crowd on shore. A large cotton umbrella sheltered his bald head, and sometimes he wore a broad-brimmed white hat. He joked with his audiences about his frequent campaigns for President, and he spoke to them of the general glories of the Florida climate. After the address, which lasted about one hour, people crowded...
...effectiveness of sanctions. "I might paraphrase Marie Antoinette," said he with a wry smile. "The Queen's notion was that if the people could not have bread they might have to eat cake and Italians may have to wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow up in Europe. We can perhaps hold...
...attitude toward Japanese smugglers who have been operating on so huge a scale that rice-tax receipts at Swatow have fallen from $400,000 per month to $12,000. Boldly the supervisor ordered seized vast quantities of smuggled Japanese and Korean imports, which include rice, bean-cake, bean-oil, cotton piece goods, sugar and cement. Last week the commander of the ten Japanese destroyers, which came zipping into Swatow and proceeded to indulge in spectacular searchlight drills every night, demanded that the smuggled goods be returned to the Japanese smugglers and that all Swatow duties on such goods be hereafter...
...beat them with clubs until the wax scales off in white, greasy flakes. Most prized is the golden wax taken from the eye of the palm. Some natives boil the wax in water; others toast it in a dry kettle. Finally, they strain it through a cotton cloth, leave it to cool. From 1,500 to 2,500 leaves are required for one arroba...