Word: haircloth
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...suit. Hymo canvas, a wool-goat hair-cotton cloth sewn into the front of the coat, forms the basis of its soft construction. The absence of stiffening gives it a natural feel. The drape-suit coat, on the other hand, incorporates a stiffening which holds it out falsely. Haircloth (long strands of horsehair woven with cotton) is included in the roll of the lapel to insure its springiness...
...thing gently, sang to it ecstatically. Tenor Max Lorenz was a picture-book Herod instead of the crazy neurasthenic that Wilde and Strauss intended. Dorothee Manski (Herodias) had to pinchhit for Karin Branzell who was taken with gallstones (see col. i). Baritone Friedrich Schorr wore Jokanaan's haircloth shirt, sang resonantly. Tenor Hans Clemens (the Syrian) stabbed himself neatly...
...they have joined hands in the Teletype business to compete against A. T. & T. (TIME, Nov. 30). Merrily he replied: "The Constitution forbids us to marry, but there is nothing to keep the Western Union and the Postal from Holding hands. Of course, when two persons sit on a haircloth sofa holding hands there is no telling how far they will go. ... But as for a merger, well there are such little things as the Sherman Act that stand in the way of that...
...admit of being readily taken off for his daily scourgings, of which the portion inflicted on the day previous to his death was still apparent in the stripes on his skin. These marvelous proofs of austerity were increased by the sight of innumerable vermin with which the haircloth abounded-boiling over with them, as Dean Stanley describes it, like water in a simmering caldron...
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