Word: felt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there was jubilation in the city's poorhouses. The Department of Hospitals announced that henceforth paupers will have a choice of nightshirts or pajamas, suits cut like tailors' advertisements and shrink-proof, shoes of 1938; that pauperesses will get flowery percales, felt hats for winter, straws for summer, stockings still cotton but in stylish tan. As a special treat, garters will be issued to both sexes. Reason: the city discovered that the paupers' clothes were so old-fashioned they had to be made to order; it will be cheaper to buy modern clothes from stock...
...leaving the new Slovak Cabinet, which was at once set up under Premier Dr. Jozef Tiso, to undertake the thankless job of negotiating with Hungary, which has claimed slices of Czechoslovakia. In Slovak areas Hungarians had hoped to find some of that "yearning" for Hungary which the Sudetens felt for Germany. However, as soon as the Slovaks were given some of the chance to act big which they have long been denied in Czechoslovakia, they started being niggardly with Budapest about giving back the Hungarian minority in Slovakia...
...Yankees needed only four games to prove that they were not odds-on favorites for nothing-not only better sluggers (for which they are famed) but better fielders, better pitchers-a well-oiled baseball machine that made the Cubs look as though they would have felt more at home in the Three-I League...
...shelves of merchandise were far more empty than a year ago, that the consumer demand of the public had declined far less than might have been supposed from reading the tearing-down stories in the press, that the full effect of pump-priming was still to be felt, that employment was gaining more than seasonally. The "spokesman" warned that the Administration will continue to prevent prices from going through the roof...
...tendency to stand about in the Eliot courtyard carrying on conversations in loud voices, with resulting disturbance to all those living in the vicinity. It was further said that the disorderly conduct both in the grill and outside in the court reached the point where some action was felt necessary...