Word: woolen
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...unseasonably humid Brazilian fall, the men sweated damply in woolen suits or sported open-necked shirts and cruise clothes. Their wives, dressed in everything from purple voile to tweeds, seemed positively dowdy to Rio, where the "New Look" has swept skirts down almost to the ankle. In the big Municipal Theater, delegates and wives gathered with some 6,000 other Rotarians from 37 countries, listened to Senior Statesman Oswaldo Aranha address them in Portuguese. "I can just feel what he's saying," gushed a Rotary wife...
From France's ornately somber National Assembly building one day last week emerged one of the world's least known and (at the moment) most important politicians. He was huddled in a black overcoat and brown woolen muffler, as if trying to withdraw into himself before the winds of winter and discontent that wailed about him. His black Homburg, tipped far over his pale blue eyes, almost scraped his nose, perhaps the most remarkable French nose since Cyrano de Bergerac's-a long, melancholy nose whose moody descent ended in a surprising and somewhat rakish twist, thus...
...U.S.S.R (Minutes) Wheat bread, Ib. 5 7½ 70 Veal, Ib. 37½ 34½ 315 Butter, lb. 30 48½ 642 Beer (1 pt. Ib. draught mild) 22½ 6¼ 171 Cotton dress 450 142 1,911 Woolen suit...
...eyepopper was Western Maryland Railway Co., which earned $7.34 a share last year, and sold last week at $10. The catch, as in many low-priced stocks, was that its arrears ($136) on preferred stock had to be paid before common stockholders got anything. Another eye-opener was American Woolen Co., which earned an estimated $15 last year and actually paid out $10 in dividends, but last week sold...
There was also fashion news for the Russian male. One Dmitry F. Shisheyev, purported "factory engineer," turned up on the Moscow radio as a commentator on U.S. wages. Said Shisheyev: "The American worker is too poor to afford a woolen suit...