Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days after the announcement Josephine Windle had become a celebrity and her statement was national news. Editorials appeared in the New York Times, New York World-Telegram, Boston Herald, the Boston Transcript, many another worthy sheet. Said the Transcript: "If the garment now called shorts should be lengthened to reach the knee, would it comply with the rule? Would it still bear its present name?" In Manhattan, Cartoonist Will Johnstone of the World Telegram made a picture of his tax payer playing golf dressed in a barrel, saying "Nobody objects to my shorts." In the New York Daily News, Cartoonist...
...suits was barely one-third suit per male resident. If every suit factory had been run at top. speed day and night, they could not have turned out together enough suits for every man in the country to buy one during the year. The production of women's outer garments was barely one-half garment per female...
...wrote Mr. Doane, "in order to supply our population with barely one-half a new garment each, we were forced to import more than one-half billion pounds of wool and cotton, to say nothing of other fibres. And had we then had the mechanical capacity to supply two full garments each we would have been forced to increase our supply of cotton, either by additional importation or cultivation, by a full five billion pounds; and our wool by more than one billion pounds, which means an increase of six times our present number of sheep, and an additional...
...Fertility" and the "Mother Goddess." Both had huge round eyes and grand-piano legs, were otherwise personable. The Lord of Fertility was about 30 in. tall, wore a knee-length fringed skirt, an elegantly curled beard. The Mother Goddess, somewhat shorter than her consort, wore a close-fitting garment like a slip, with an almost modern cape effect on one side. The statues were ascribed to the Sumerian culture...
...girl: **** is not only the cream in our coffee, she is also the kick in our cocktall. She has acutely up to the minute clothes and a stream-line figure upon which to hang them. Favorite garment: ankle strap: occupation: prom trotter...