Word: woole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Keable's novel has thus been canned in strips. It makes inferior fare. Monte Blue, the actor whose face is so soft you expect it to melt any moment, is the chaplain who tore off his white collar and went to war. Later-to Africa in the wool business-injured-back to London. On convenient pretext, the girl is introduced at every episode. One can afford to be distant both to her and to her story...
...about $100,000,000. Some 300 factories in this country make hats, and 96 of them specialize in straws. Annual output is valued at $116,000,000, consisting of $32,500,000 worth of straw hats, $75,000,000 of "fur felt" hats and $8,500,000 of "wool felt" hats...
...Dakota Country, until they trampled the mountain flat, leaving only the heaps of blood-darkened dust now called the Black Hills, none but a foreign reader will be reminded of Miinchausen, Swift, or Rabelais. That Paul Bunyan stood about 400 feet high in his orange and lavender checked wool socks; that he invented the logging industry and combed his beard with a young fir or redwood when thinking of other ways in which he might make history; that the salt, pepper and sugar in his camp's cookhouses were drawn down between the tables by four-horse teams while...
...Foches had long been in the wool trade. The grandfather, Dominique Foch (1733-1804), in addition to increasing his fortune from wool, had busied himself giving practical expression to his enthusiasm for Napoleon, after whom he christened his son (Marshal Foch's father) Bertrand Jules Napoleon. Foch pere did not continue in the wool business but, as the French say, entra dans I'Administration; in other words, he became a civil servant. In 1850, having married Marie Sophie Jacqueline Dupre, he was appointed by President Louis Napoleon Secretaire General de la Prefecture at Tarbes. Next year...
Ferdinand Foch did not revert to the wool business, but he shared his grandfather's enthusiasm for the great Napoleon whom he was never tired of studying. From the days of his early education at the lycee de Tarbes until his actual entrance into the Ecole Polytechnique at Paris, Ferdinand Foch studied hard to become a soldier...