Word: feathering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Freeman). Crowds packed from building line to car tracks threw confetti, cot ton balls, grabbed at shoes dangling over the sides of the trucks. Meanwhile, up from the river came another parade, headed by Joseph O. Misshore, Negro embalmer, in a beaded leather suit, wearing the huge feather headdress of the Zulus, followed by a court of the Dukes of Africa. King Zulu led his retinue down North Rampart Street through admiring dusky throngs who planned to dance late that night at the Zulu ball. King Rex went on to the City Hall to receive the keys of the city...
...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...
...plumes in Manhattan, paste them onto the birds' tails, sell them at 50? each, freshly clipped. Biggest Cape of Good Hope farm belongs to Sir Lewis Richardson, supports 1,000 birds. London is the prime market, but the regular monthly auctions have been abandoned. Big U. S. feather firms buy direct from Cape farms, smaller ones go to importers. Most other feathers are also imported. China furnishes plumage from swans and peacocks. Pheasant and partridge feathers, the only ones from wild birds which may be imported to the U. S., come from Great Britain. Guinea hen feathers are imported...
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...