Word: woolen
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...Woolen robed lamas in a Buddhist monastery, high up in the treacherous denies of the Himalayas, turned their prayer wheels, eyed their pudgy Buddha nervously to see what the god might think of ''Sumy Side Up," Hollywood foxtrot, which a small phonograph was grinding out. Noting no sign of displeasure, the senior priest despatched his wife for a jug of home brewed marwa, thus repaid a strange "professor" from Germany for a new musical experience...
Heaviest March employment losses were reported in these industries: woolen goods, hosiery, men's clothes, beef slaughtering, railroad repairing, oil refining, boots & shoes, structural iron...
Thus began a terrific fire in Ohio's chief prison which Warden Preston E. Thomas was sure had been started by desperate inmates to effect a wholesale delivery. A second fire was kindled mysteriously in the Catholic chapel, a third flashed up in the woolen mills. Into the prison yard poured thousands of screaming, shouting, swearing prisoners, cowed by the flames, tempted to dash for freedom. Troops, state and federal, augmented the prison guard, pricked the crazy mob into sullen obedience with bayonets. Fire chiefs threatened to let the whole penitentiary burn down unless the warden would guarantee...
...mile fell over without stumbling, its legs suddenly helpless. After looking it over St. Godard took its strap off and put it on the sled. Through the gigantic white domes of snow, alive in the wind over the wilderness, a figure was catching St. Godard-parka suit, woolen socks and moccasins, a young, bronzed face-Earl Brydges. Brydges lives in Cranberry Portage, St. Godard in The Pas, 55 miles away, so they are neighbors as neighborhood is measured by frontiersmen. Brydges drove into The Pas in a whirlwind finish, the winner. His time was 12½ minutes better than...
Died. Charles James Webb, 71, founder-president of Charles J. Webb & Co., "dean of the woolen industry''; at Elkins Park...