Word: quilt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was something new under a sun that rose one morning last week over Washington. Whether it was a permanent device for settling labor disputes or only a patchwork quilt under which old forces would continue their struggle in secret, no man knew for sure...
...with little tassels dangling from their caps. British sailors followed, and behind them a dismounted detachment of the 5th Inniskilling Dragoons, the British regiment of which Albert was Colonel-in-Chief. French troops preceded the Paris post of the American Legion. The flags of the Belgian Army formed a quilt of fluttering black, yellow and red against the grey sky. Every regiment was represented by a squad of nine men, marching abreast, the colonel at one end, a private at the other. King Albert's coffin, draped in the national flag, rode on a gun carriage. His trench helmet...
...Cooke was not yet 40." Old enough to go to war, they were also too canny. They wanted to be rich before they died. They all got their wish. The interwoven strands of their careers make up a pattern so complicated that at times it resembles a crazy quilt, but Author Josephson's patient unraveling shows a general if sometimes unconscious concentric design, spiraling ever closer to monopolistic unity. Rough-&-ready "Commodore" Cornelius Vander Bilt, plebeian founder of a proudly aristocratic family, trusted nobody, kept all his accounts in his head. One of his business letters: Gentlemen: You have...
...Author. Wiseacres say that when a chameleon is put on a crazy quilt, it becomes fatally confused. On the U. S. crazy-quilt, most smart writers stick safely to their native patches, or seek like colors. Not so 39-year-old Thames (pronounced not Tems but as it is spelled) Ross Williamson. Born on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho, son of a Welsh-Norwegian father, a French-Irish mother, his mixed inheritance has well prepared him for the kaleidoscopic environment from which he is emerging as an able guide to the patchwork of the U. S. scene...
...quilt over...