Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Frances Winwar's newest novel, "Gallows Hill", lovers of American history and died-in-the-wool New Englanders will find a new angle of approach to the bloody tradition of the Salem witchcraft persecutions. Aside from the fact that the subject is a familiar one to most of us, the novel is a gripping story displaying in all its emotional actuality the horrors of those ignorant days. The author's faithful adherence to facts which could have been accumulated only by extensive research into the Archives of Salem and Boston brings to the reading public much that is actually biographical...
...decade and a half slipped by, at the end of which he received the appointment of Comptroller of Customs on wools, hides, and woll-fells in the port of London. By grant of the mayor and aldermen he occupied an entire dwelling on top of Aldsgate, ten minutes' walk from the quay known as Wool wharf where he worked over dull figures in heavy ledgers. Here at the eastern edge of turbulent little London, high over a busy street, and above his modestly-stocked buttery, the poet passed another decade--reading, writing, and drinking from the King's daily pitcher...
...here include embroideries, are certainly impressive. Perhaps no other art will disclose such possibilities for comparative study when all regions are ultimately brought into the national portfolios. In the textiles, the workmanship of the project artists is amazing. The colors are rich yet they achieve the softness of the wool, the folds and the textures create an almost complete illusion...
...less affected than the standard staples were minor commodities. In the past month kerosene has gone from 4½? to 5? per gal., linseed oil from less than 9½? to 10? per lb., wool from 92? to $1.01 per lb. In London, where one can speculate in dried flies and ant eggs, an all-time high was set for copra. The New York Journal of Commerce reported a rise in balsam copaiba, a tight market in gum benzoin and "no sign of any relief in the shortage of eucalyptus...
...Hall in swank Greenwich, Conn, is a collection of Gothic-Roman- esque-Italianate buildings which are predominantly pink stucco chiefly because pink is a favorite color of Rosemary's breezy, strong-minded old Headmistress Caroline Ruutz-Rees (pronounced R'Treece). The "Boarders" and the "Day Boarders" wear wool or tweed uniforms in winter and gingham ones in spring tailored to Headmistress Ruutz-Rees's exact specifications. All regard her with a loyalty that makes Rosemary Hall notable among girls' schools not so much for its fashionableness and its stiff scholastic standards as for the fact that...