Word: fur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President & Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding of Miss Barbara Hight and Charles Davis Hayes, at the bride's home in Washington. Except for relatives and military aides there were no other guests. Mrs. Coolidge wore claret-red satin, black slippers, black fox-fur...
...Starting from his discoveries, doctors are experimenting with malaria to treat tuberculosis. In the Leipzig Zeitschrift fur Tuberkulose, O. Weselko writes that the treatment is lasting. The body is made able to resist the tuberculosis germs. But in the London Journal of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene, M. Freiman writes that in districts where malaria is prevalent, patients apparently free from tuberculosis, often after they had contracted malaria, suddenly showed acute signs of tuberculosis. On the other hand, consumptives with malaria grew worse and often died...
...inexhaustible propensity of U. S. people to sit and look on was heavily exploited last Saturday. Millions of football folk sat on narrow benches under the tingling October wind, hardening themselves for the real tests of November. Fur coats were given their earliest workouts, wind-defying cosmetics were tested, feet tapped tentatively on chill concrete against the afternoons when they will be all but frozen. Six hundred thousand by authentic estimate crammed themselves around the 15 leading games ?Notre Dame-Navy, Penn-Penn State, and Stanford-Southern California assembling 60,000 each...
Communism. In the Passaic (N. J.) textile workers' strike last winter, in the woman's garment industry, and in the Manhattan fur workers' strike, Communist machinations were exposed and defeated by A. F. of L. members...
...reader may be calculated to suffer most from "an unprobed spirit of romance"? Why, who but a typist? A pure, attractive, hardworking, intelligent young woman between 25 and 30; the kind Elinor Glyn gushes over and Gilbert Frankau glorifies. She dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young...