Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were our guests here July 3-6 (Fourth being Cal-birthday), before they went up to Plymouth. Mrs. Coolidge then wore the pretty crocheted white lace (note: Mrs. Stearns wasn't positive about the fabric-thought it might be silk or silk-and-wool) beret, with a small feather or some other ornamental touch. Her black-hair was tightly folded up under the cap. The resultant smooth hairline at the neck probably gave careless observers the bob idea...
Seven long, lean years have depressed the U. S. feather industry. So low did prices sink that even ostrich feathers, an aristocrat of the group, were being stuffed into pillows and mattresses. During the last few months, however, a great revival has been started by the feather-capped Empress Eugenie hats (TIME, Aug. 3). Raw ostrich which recently brought $15 a pound last week fetched $50 to $60. Lesser feathers showed equally heartening gains, except for the duck division. So overproduced are duck feathers that last week a Long Island dealer in them asked the State Department if a sale...
...last week from the Place Vendôme to Etoile where the fashion houses are finding out the surprises. The Empress Eugénie hat was still there, low-crowned, point-brimmed, fitting the head like a piece of orange peel with curled edges. It flourished a provocative ostrich feather. Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera, in California, Egypt and Algeria, bemoaning the seven lean years since hats were last plumed, hoped the feathers in Paris would prove more than a whim...
...singers real champagne to drink as they sing "Hoch! Champagner, Konig aller Weine!" To cheer up depressed Vienna some 2.000 Rotarians & wives arrived last week for the 22nd Annual Convention of Rotary International. About 50 of the visitors pranced about the capital in green Tyrolese kneepants, short jackets, feather-peaked hats. Composer Lehar, who still resides in Vienna, is the conductor-mem-ber of Vienna's Rotary Club, rehearsed the two operettas The Merry Widow and The Land of Smiles to entertain his fellow Rotarians during their visit. Most complex item of Rotarian business to be settled: whereas each...
...Well aware was President Hoover of the political battles his proposal invited. The War Department was swamped with inquiries from anxious and excited Congressmen as to whether this or that Army post was to go. A garrison, no matter how old or useless, in his district is a great feather in the political cap of any Representative. Supplies are bought in his community. Soldiers spend their pay among his constituents. Troops are on hand for all local celebrations. So tenaciously have Senators and Representatives fought for their Army posts that, as a group, they have succeeded in blocking practically...