Word: woole
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Stanfield of Oregon, "America's largest producer of wool and mutton...
...Republicans to prevent the election of a Democrat as Chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee (see page 3) : "This bird from Maryland flopped when all that was needed to elect Smith was his vote. . . . The promise of the average politician who uses fine words in order to pull the wool over the eyes of the people is like a rabbit sausage. Fifty-fifty- one horse and one rabbit. The people get the rabbit and the great corporations get the horse...
Even as a child he had strange adventures. Melusine, the immortal elvish sorceress, found him daydreaming one day, took him into the forest of Acaire. There was a high place in the middle of that wood. There Florian beheld Melior, asleep beneath a coverlet of violet wool in her father's bemagicked palace, and, having seen the perfect beauty of Melior, all great satisfaction in mortal women was spoiled for him. When he grew up, it is true, he married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite...
...proved so accurate and courageous that his remarks are always worth listening to. His mouthpiece, the fortnightly bulletin of the Cleveland Trust, now expresses its opinion that 1924 will be a year of diminished prosperity, and cites the obvious decline in output of iron and steel, automobiles, tires, cotton, wool, shoes and building construction. It also declares that short-term interest charges are about to begin a long decline, and that in consequence food prices should respond by commencing a gradual rise. The bulletin very sanely concludes: "There is good reason to believe at the present time...
Iron, steel, automobiles, tires, cotton, wool, shoes, building construction...