Word: sheepskins
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...last week, a gaudy explosion of sound and color broke over Britain's largest colony. Spearmen whooped and saddlery creaked. Drums bongity-bongity-bongitied. Reed pipes wailed, wooden kafo horns growled out Louis Armstrong blue notes. The Emir of Kano's jester wore his best blue-dyed sheepskin wig and beard. Some of the warriors wore chain mail, wide-bladed swords or helmets of Crusader descent...
Harvard and Radcliffe seniors may be looking for shelter instead of sheepskin at next June's Commencement, Edward W. Burke, director of Cambridge Civil Defense indicated yesterday...
Inside the huge store, the crowd was so thick that the militia stood by to keep order. Peasants in tanned-sheepskin coats and felt boots, city matrons in mouton-collared coats stared in awe at yard upon gleaming yard of silks and satins produced by Soviet textile plants. In the 36 years of Communist rule, they had never seen anything like...
...bodice was priced at the equivalent of $34 a yard, the crepe de Chine pastels of the skirt at $27.50 (wage of average Russian: $175 a month). At an opulent lilac negligee lined with white silk and with a white ruffed collar, said Salisbury, "an old peasant in a sheepskin cap and coat ... stared as though his eyes would pop." There were heavy velvets at $52.50 a yard, silk in flower patterns ("more heavily figured than would suit Western buyers") at about $32, corduroys in solid colors and stripes at $35. The quality, Salisbury added, seemed good...
...answer is yes, mainly because of the brave battle for academic freedom waged by Theater Arts Professor Ronald Reagan. "Hot Garters Gertie," as the bump & grind artist is known, is saved from expulsion when Professor Reagan threatens to expose Board of Trustees Chairman Roland Winters as a wolf in sheepskin clothing who once gave Gertie a mink coat...