Word: woolen
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...Richard Woolen Emory...
...Richard Woolen Emery...
...asked a question. What would the answer be?" With this proposition, impressionistic, word-jumbling Gertrude Stein, most famed of U. S. literary expatriates, greeted the first corps of U. S. newshawks she had seen in 31 years. Author Stein, hearty, hefty, dressed in a coarse, mannish suit and thick woolen stockings, was sailing up New York Harbor to begin a lecture tour. Over her close-cropped grey hair was pulled a tweed deer-stalker's cap. To the disappointment of newshawks, she gave an intelligible interview: "I do talk as I write but you can hear better than...
With no silk, no cotton and only 3,500,000 sheep, German efforts to find synthetic textiles are at fever pitch. Rayon production is rigidly protected by import quotas and encouraged by a complex system of rebates to manufacturers. Substitute fabrics, mostly rayons, have been developed to replace woolen and worsted dresses, knitted dresses and full-fashioned silk hosiery. Next problem is men's suits and overcoats. At a recent chemical congress in Cologne the prophecy was made that suits of zelluloid, zellon and galolith (artificial wools) would soon appear, and hats of flirro (fibre made from Cellophane...
...which she lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael Cantacuzene. Regretting that she had been unable to get accommodations in anything more humble than tourist class of the Majestic, Mirabai (Madeleine Slade), British disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, arrived in Manhattan after a stormy passage. Said Mirabai, shivering in woolen robe and sandals: "Miss Slade died nine years ago when I renounced the world. ... I shall try to give Mahatma's point of view. . . . Who can say that he is greater or less than your Christ? ... He is my Christ...