Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens throughout the country were shockey yesterday morning to read in the headlines that a party, evidently bearing all the earmarks of dyed-in-th-wool, patriotic Americanism had been raided and the spectators as well as participants undignifiedly impounded in the Everett police station. Such an action on the part of the authorities would be condonable but--the party was being held in the American Legion Hall...
...venerable Baltic Exchange. Then shellac threatened the City (financial district), until the distressed shellac manipulators were rescued behind locked doors. There was a sharp break in Australian gold shares, a break in tin. Last week the century-old Bradford house of Francis Willey & Co., world's largest wool dealers, was in trouble. It was apparent that British recovery was slowing, and finally there was the current political excitement...
...been removed to install a five-foot-square screen at the cabin's front end. Warner Brothers had provided a cinema projector, two technicians, a specially-made 16-mm. print of Devil Dogs of the Air. The tri-Wasp Ford, ordinarily noisy, had been sound-proofed with rock wool...
...France in 1852, four years after 40 French Trappists began building their vast monastery in Kentucky, not far from Bardstown and its Cathedral. Professing his vows at La Grande Trappe where the Order (Reformed Cistercians) received its nickname, Father Obrecht early learned Trappist discipline-to sleep in his rough wool habit; arise at 2 a. m.; spend the day in devotions and hard work;* dig his own grave; speak during the day only to his superiors and during the "Great Silence" of the night, to no one at all. A friend of the last four Popes, he was sent...
...Jumped to the conclusion that Great Britain may soon recognize Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo when London's Conservative Press received with acclaim last week a" rabidly pro-Manchukuo report of 12,000 words turned in by the British trade mission to Manchukuo under Wool Tycoon Lord Barnby. Reputedly the Barnby commissioners bagged $40,000,000 worth of Japanese orders for steel alone. Cried the Tory Morning Post: "Manchukuo is a permanent fact to which the world must accommodate itself, whether it likes it or not. No useful purpose is to be served by preserving the diplomatic...