Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pattered to his bath, a stocky, powerful man of 57. A secretary followed, reading to him summaries of the night's news. The President sloshed himself, dried himself, shaved himself (the secretary reading the while) and dressed himself in formal morning clothes. Like most male Cubans he detests woolen clothes. But this was a day of days-the 27th anniversary of the Republic's founding and his second Inaugural. There would be a gay time in the old town† that day and night...
...week the identical little cream-colored biplane with a Wasp engine in its nose taxied out upon the field of the naval air station at Washington, D. C. Forty gallons of gasoline were in its tank. In the cockpit was no Icarus. Instead was an Apollo wearing no triple woolen under wear ? merely ordinary clothing cased ty a furlined flying suit, sheepskin boots, fur helmet, fur mittens, a mask with an oxy gen tube (his nostrils were plugged so that he must breathe through his mouth) and a pair of goggles with tiny holes in them so that...
...Army descended upon that "nest of polygamous iniquity." To him by his wife Anne in 1862 was born a third child, a son named Reed. Ten years later Abe Smoot moved his Mormon household to Prove, 50 miles south of the Utah capital, there to start a woolen mill, to import the first beet sugar mill west of the Mississippi...
Under the shadows of the Wasatch Range, Reed Smoot attended the Brigham Young Academy, clerked in his father's store, worked in his father's woolen mill. A good Mormon, he believed that the sober labors of this life prepared for the life to come. Soberly, he subscribed to two New York newspapers of different faiths, read them comparatively for a year, solemnly concluded that only as a Republican could his business soul be saved. From that decision Reed Smoot has never since flinched...
...Mormon Church is a business as well as a religion. Reed Smoot busied himself with its finances, pulled them out of a rut, made its beet sugar and woolen enterprises return good profits. His industry, in 1903, was rewarded with an election to the U. S. Senate...