Word: loomed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bigelow-Sanford. Inventor of the power loom was Erastus B. Bigelow who became head of what is now the Bigelow-Hartford Carpet Co. (Massachusetts), oldest U. S. carpet makers. Last week the oldest carpet makers absorbed the oldest rug manufacturers, Stephen Sanford & Sons (New York) founded...
...stands for $500 in gold which the banker is supposed to have in his bank. Each of the other five players is dealt 20 cards from a 100 card deck divided into ten suits. Each suit stands for an industry, such as Coal Mine, Brickfield, Wagon Works, Loom, Pottery, Saw Mill, etc. During the course of the game, the Banker attempts to buy from the players all the cards of all the suits. As soon as he can absorb one entire suit, or establish a monopoly in that industry, he can add that suit, or that industry, to the assets...
Yellow-haired Frances Williams sings the show's best song, Bottoms Up, in her slithering, urgent voice. To this ditty Producer White dances a strenuous routine (successor to his Charleston, Black Bottom). The carnivals of Europe have inspired huge, mechanical grotesques which loom now and then behind the players - a shaggy Beast rolls its head and eyes while Beauty pirouettes; an enormous dummy jazz band swoops and sways. Meanwhile Willie Howard talks Jewish, and the Abbott dancers from Chicago tap dance on their toes. Ousted from the bed of a married woman, a clown exclaims : "Believe...
...international orchestral orgy, a festival with virtuosi and orchestras from 50 countries, from Asia to the Argentine, with programs telling the history of music from Palestrina to Gershwin, began last week to loom as the major event of Manhattan's 1030-31 concert season...
...Fogg Museum will this morning open a new exhibit. This show will be a presentation of hand loom fabrics illustrating weaves...