Word: woole
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nina always tried to make the most of her bulky (185 Ibs.) charms. Like her movie namesake, Ninotchka, she was fascinated by bourgeois hats. The cut-rate merchandise at C. & A. Modes, Ltd. seemed just what she wanted: among the 305. felt flowerpots, the cheap berets, the fluffy wool stocking caps there must be a creation that would be the envy of her home-town friends in Sverdlovsk (pop. 550,000) on the eastern slopes of the Urals...
Chromatic Collection. Nina poked around in the bright jumble on the C. & A. counters and latched on to five natty little numbers-a chromatic collection of feathered "half hats" in mauve, yellow, black and white, and a pert red wool beanie. The whole lot came to ?1 12s. 11 d. ($4.61). The next thing anyone knew, the hats were in her shopping bag and Nina was in the hands of some hard-eyed store detectives who decided that she had failed to go through the capitalistic formality of paying. Naturally, Nina couldn't understand a word...
...Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody in a saloon row, and couldn't get sprung in time. "When I got to the club, they didn't want to let me in. I had on a leather jacket and black wool slacks. I looked like a motorcycle kid. I had eight minutes to dress and get on the floor. It wasn't until I'd finished that I realized what had happened. Then I started to shake, and I passed out and started to cry." Last month Eydie...
...quite interested in the results of the survey of college professors who read TIME [July 23]. I would be even more interested to learn how many died-in-the-wool Democrats like me read TIME each week, writhe in silent anger, vow to cancel their subscriptions, and then camp by the mailbox waiting for the next issue...
...WOOL COMEBACK is cutting U.S. stocks to lowest point in years as demand outstrips production. Low wool prices and reaction against synthetic fabrics, whose novelty is wearing off, has upped wool consumption 20% above 1954 low point, 10% above last year...