Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a relaxed but rollicking bounce, his right hand dallying attractively behind the foot-tapping beat of his left. Other times he just gets slow and dreamy, playing around the melody a lot of quiet chords that have just enough bite to keep the customers awake; but this harmonic fabric makes many another jazz thumper sound either flat or fussy. Says he: "I just play what I feel. Suddenly I hit a groove that moves me, and then I take off. I don't worry about how it'll come...
...style roller was hardly an improvement on the brush; it still had to be dipped in a pan, would drip paint. The newer rollers, made by Cleveland's Kenwill Corp. and others, hold the paint inside the cylinder, let it out through holes onto a rubber or fabric sleeve so that it can be rolled on walls or ceilings without dripping. Even the big brush makers like Rubberset Co. are beginning to sell rollers. But brush makers are not giving up the battle. Sears, Roebuck recently began selling a brand-new 4-in. wall brush that can be broken...
...continuity of British life, in the strength of the fabric of its body politic-of so much sterner stuff, despite all buffetings, than that of any other European nation-in its fidelity to the old standards, combined with its curiosity about new horizons-in all these things there is evidence that the feelings of men like Eccles and Lloyd are shared by the great majority of Britons. How far they are shared, the poll next week will show...
...whipped up the WAC uniform. Why couldn't she do a modern garb for hard-working nuns? Hattie's solution, designed free of charge: a simple two-piece, ankle-length dress in grey wool with a gored skirt that can be turned inside out when the fabric begins to wear; a coat of heavy grey wool with a Peter Pan collar and close-fitting sleeves; a small-brimmed grey hat with deep cloche sides...
Retail prices of wool products were already feeling the drop. J. P. Stevens & Co., one of the largest wool fabric producers in the U.S., announced the first big cut in wool textiles; it shaved some of its spring line prices from the year's high, and many a wool user, such as men's suit makers, who had been threatening price rises, now considered cuts in their lines for next spring. U.S. carpet men, loaded with big inventories, have cut prices 20% since spring, and last week the biggest of them, Bigelow-Sanford, announced a third-round...