Word: knitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Furthermore the visits may be taken to indicate that for the closely-knit world of the present day the ordinary machinery of diplomacy is not able to deal adequately with the actual problems presented. It is necessary to establish closer relations between the executive heads of States than can be furnished through the usual channels of diplomatic intercourse. For the Great Powers, other than the United States and the U.S.S.R., and in general for the members of the League, such closer relations are created and maintained through the instrumentality of the League, where the heads of States regularly get together...
Three weeks ago Steamship Row heard of a big Italian shipping merger more closely knit than the British and German pooling agreements. Officials of two trans-atlantic Italian lines refused to comment. Giuseppe Cosulich in New York said he had heard nothing about it. Rome despatches last week confirmed the rumors. A new company, Italian Lines, was formed with capital of 800,000,000 lire. Banca Commerciale took a 42% interest, Credito Maritime 40%; the remaining 18% was divided between the shipping companies...
...here is a picture that without clamor, without pretension, attains what "The Crowd" and "Street Scone" sought begging. Humbly and with humor it tells in simple language its story of the tenements, of a wise-guy radio clerk (James Dunn) and the girl (Sally Ellers) who loves him. Knit closely by the interest created in these characters, and sustained throughout by succeeding moments of tension, "Bad Girl" possesses the signal merit of concentration found wanting in the Vidor productions...
...financial potency and comparative prosperity of France last month, many curious eyes turned to France's neighbor and ally, Belgium. Last week Associated Press correspondents finished a report on Belgium's economic position which showed that the people for whom Britons and U. S. citizens once knit thousands of pairs of woolen socks today have the most balanced economic position in Europe, with the possible exception of the Swiss and Dutch...
...made his impress upon Illinois, abolishing naughty fraternities (Kappa Beta Phi, Theta Nu Epsilon), fraternity "hell week," freshman hazing, student ownership of automobiles. He is fond of proper fraternity life, interested especially in his own Alpha Tau Omega. Like Edward, Prince of Wales an accomplished fancy-worker, he knit sweaters for soldiers during the World War, has lately turned his attention to tatting and crocheting. He gave Alpha Phi Sorority a fine tat-edged luncheon cloth, crocheted this spring a rag rug for Kappa Delta...