Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...psychic, "Margery," Mrs. Crandon, removed all clothing before the seances at Harvard, says a signed state- ment of the Harvard group in Dr. Crandon's report. "She wore into the seance room one warm woolen garment," Electric torches, large megaphones, bells, baskets, all illuminated by phosphorescent paint, formed the psychic's equipment. "Several professors wore illuminated Electric bands on feet and wrists, and illuminated marks fastened on the center of the forehead with tape." Twenty minutes after the session began, "Walter," the spirit, began to speak. "This is a nice, comfortable room: looks like the Charlestown Jall. What's this...
Editor's office he smashed his Douay down upon the desk and produced from a fold of his garment-TIME, April...
Proudly disporting herself in a new dress, hat or fur, many a U. S. lady has lately been distressed to find that the first time she wore it out on a damp day the garment emitted an atrocious odor. The retail merchant to whom she returned the dress, hat or fur has usually been nonplussed. . . . Fearful of losing trade, clothing manufacturers have hushed up the situation which causes this unpleasant phenomenon. Last week in Manhattan the story of cause & cure came to light...
Girl cleaners in a Brooklyn pants factory are paid ½? for each garment they thread and sponge-a 5-min. operation. Their income: 6? per hour, $2.78 per week...
David Dubinsky, 40. a Pole from Lodz, was elected president of International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, succeeding the late labor-leader Benjamin Schlesinger...