Word: stitch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attractively iconoclastic novel, "South Wind." Now he had a most yielding view of south strange sects as Baptists. Classed them with the natives of M'tezo. Incurable heathen, the M'tezo. They filed their teeth, ate their superfluous female relations, swapped wives every new moon, and never wore a stitch of clothes. But they despised lying. One could not help liking them. But Baptists...
...position often take up art. They devote themselves to it as other women devote themselves to needlework, and it makes them happy. Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, as all the world knows, took up art some time ago, and took it up not at all as if it were cross-stitch. It became evident that she had talent. Critics acclaimed her; debutantes pressed her hand and murmured, "How fascinating-to dedicate your life to Art." In the course of her extremely active career she has received few rebuffs-but last week one came...
...absence broke up the accurate passing which has characterized the play of the first forward line. Zarakov took Hodder's place, but was also forced to leave the game in the second period when he suffered a recurrence of his football injury on the knee. Ellison had a stitch taken in his eye as a result of a collision with Small, the B. A. A. defense...
...these arch-guardians of national safety by what a slim thread it hangs in these times of deceptive calm. One puff from an inflamed Bolshevik and the whole political and social structure will come tumbling about the ears of hapless multitudes in this peaceful and contented land. A stitch in time will save, not nine, but a hundred million souls from instant destruction...
Vincent Richards, third ranking tennis player in the U. S.: "At Fifth Avenue and 37th St., Manhattan, my taxi skidded into a pole, throwing me through the window. An eight-stitch cut on the wrist and minor head cuts necessitated my staying out of tournament play for several days...