Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reed of Missouri offered to displace his investigating resolution to allow quick passage of the deficiency bill, the alien property bill and the public buildings bill. Thereupon, Mr. Blease wandered in, half-asleep. He heard the words "unanimous consent." He shouted: "I object." Nobody was going to pull any wool over his eyes...
...Commerce at its annual banquet. His cure for the farmers was no new bonanza - merely an old one, clearly outlined for action. He urged that a federal commission be authorized to fix and guarantee minimum prices on the wheat, corn, cotton, sugar crops and on the production of wool and butter. He suggested that his commission be composed of the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor, and four other members appointed by the President. Other farm relief plans have sought to take care of the crop surplus by government marketing aid, but Mr. Meredith's price-fixing scheme aims...
...President sat down, listened to speeches by Secretary of War Davis and American Legion Commander Howard P. Savage. He might have shivered but he did not because Secret Service Chief Jarvis wrapped an automobile blanket about him; also Mrs. Catherine Brew, War mother, sent her wool blanket to protect him. Said...
...that Harvard will beat Yale today even if I have to leave the little woman in the stands by herself while I go down and tell Coach Horween just what to do. And she won't mind it for she is all wool and a yard wide speaking in round figures that is. Moreover if Harvard does win she has promised to go with me after the game to a justice of the peace and you can guess what will happen then, Lucky girl. So I am prophesying today a victory for Harvard and a tie for Joe Forecast...
...paper underwear and three woolen sweaters; in paper socks with fleece-lined boots; with four pairs of mittens-paper, silk, wool, fleeced leather-and wool-edged goggles to keep his eyeballs from freezing, Pilot Jean Callizo climbed up and up from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...