Word: crepes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...