Word: cottons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
...fine bunch of my friends if I would not drop around with the New Orleans oysters and fry some of them for them in good Louisiana style and way. So, Mr. President, I bought a frying pan about 8 inches deep . . . and I bought a 10-pound bucket of cotton-seed-oil lard. ... I took the oysters, Mr. President, the way they should be taken, and laid them out on a muslin cloth, about twelve of them, and then you pull the cloth over and you dry the oysters. You dry them, you see, first with a muslin cloth...
...Dallas, Tex., police picked up a shaggy-haired young man they found on the street late at night, dressed only in long cotton underdrawers. At headquarters he explained: "I'm Heckter. I hail from up yonder by Weldon, Ark. One night maw was reading to me out of a book and she come across a sign that said somethin' about how you can learn to be a great singer from a teacher in Dallas. Maw made me a pretty new shirt, give me some money and showed me the road to git on comin' this...
...Batt; David Beck; F. C. Bosler; D. M. Bowen; R. R. Boyd; R. P. Breck; N. C. Burbank, Jr.; C. D. Campbell; W. D. Castle; H. L. Chadbourne; A. M. Clark; H. vanB. Cleveland; E. R. Coburn; R. C. Cochrane, Jr.; L. A. Collins; J. L. Coombs; S. P. Cotton; E. H. Cox; Sylvester Cunningham; S. M. Dall; J. L. Dampeer; J. K. Davis; H. G. Deane; J. K. P. de Varon; Hume Dow; A. C. Doyle; Aldrich Durant, Jr.; J. R. Egan; W. A. Evans; Thomas Fuller; H. L. Furse; R. I. Gale; T. F. Geraghty; John Gilroy...
...brighter. The stock-market relapse in any event was overdue after a two-month climb and was accelerated by the plight of the French franc (see p. 19). The fall in commodities was aggravated by President Roosevelt's gloomy forecast that wheat might drop to 36? per bu., cotton to 5? per lb. unless the Constitution were amended (see p. 11). And general uncertainty was increased by the fact that the mourner's bench far outshouted the cheering section...