Word: crepe
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...began to remove his overgarments at about the time his rivals began to have serious trouble clearing the bar. He took off his flannel trousers at 6:4, his sweatshirt at 6:5. On his feet he wore shoes of kangaroo skin, made to order, with pin spikes and crepe rubber soles, lighter than those of his confreres. Spectators noticed peculiarities in his style, occasioned by the fact that he learned to high jump without the supervision of an experienced coach, at his home in Whitestone, L. I. He circled slightly coming to the standard, kicked up with his inside...
...Materials: wool, tweed, much velvet, taffeta, lace, crepe. Novelties: diarachnak, a new double rough tweed, and dogaliah, a rough wool filled with long white dog hair...
Well! Things have come to a pretty pass. TIME (Feb. 9) tells us Charlie Chaplin has used the same mustache for the last 15 years, and the New Yorker (Feb. 21) says he makes a new one out of hair crepe every time he acts...
Last week came the last meeting of the Last Man Club. At the head of a table ringed with 33 crepe-decked chairs stood Charles Lockwood, 87, of Chamberlain. S. Dak. Tears ran down his wrinkled cheeks as he opened the bottle of wine. ''After our experiences in that war . . . it seemed funny to us." he said. "But now (hat I am last I see no humor in it." He filled his glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart...
...Rhineland celebration ended right there. Old Paul immediately canceled the rest of his trip, donated money to a relief fund, motored back to Berlin, rested his weary feet. In the morning, every jubilant German flag that had fluttered from Holland to Switzerland was at half-staff. Crepe shrouded triumphal arches throughout the Rhineland...