Word: stitches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most of these people have not had a new stitch of clothing or a new pair of shoes since the General Strike, two years ago. . . . Maybe they listened a bit to the Bolshevik then, but that's all over now. . . . There's no fight left in any of them. All they want is a chance to work so they can eat. . . . Nobody steals around here. There's nothing to steal. Half the people haven't a table or a chair-had to sell them to buy bread...
...brought $1,000,000 worth of diamonds illicitly into the U. S. The jeweler, Morris Landau, was unregenerate on discovery; his daughter Frances had hysterical remorse; the traffic policeman appeared innocently bewildered and spoke of the many important friends he had, among them William B. Leeds Jr. and "Stitch" McCarthy, the so-called Mayor of Chinatown, Manhattan. Had they happened first upon anyone of these, the detectives might have remained baffled; but instead, after many sleuthing trips across the Atlantic, during which he had amused them with songs and served them with refreshments, they had come to suspect the Chief...
...they emphasize the author's versatility. He proves himself facile in telling a tale of spinsters in a sparkling seaside village, or one of masculine bitterness in the sinister backwoods. In the first, two old maids are fond of each other, fond of their shop full of cross-stitch samplers, fond of the two little donkeys, Percy and Emily, which trot by every day. Miss Alice is going to marry Mr. Maurice Hunting; she meets him formally to accept his offer of a week ago, and he tells her his plans, tells her his hope of having two children...
...Bruntcliffe, near Leeds, has devised a machine which turns out 2,800 yards of material a week instead of the 150-yard output of the common loom. The fibres are passed through a carding machine, emerging as a broad loose band; then sewn crosswise by rows of tiny stitches; the crosswise direction giving great strength to the finished cloth. An inch of blanket cloth will be traversed by 16 to 20 rows of stitching, each stitch about one-fourteenth of an inch long. Weaving ("under and over") has been dispensed with, which means less capital, fewer workers, big savings...
...each game, the Rangers skated into the Montreal Forum feeling that it would be hard for them to get going. They were cut up and gashed-Johnson with the lobe of his nose torn through by a skate-point, Bun Cook with a charley-horse, Frank Boucher with a stitch over his eye. They were tired also from the strain of playing before the hostile and unsportsmanlike crowd in Boston which threw garbage and bottles on the ice, hit the referee in the head with bread soaked in near-beer, and kept quiet when the visiting team scored a goal...