Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Utica, N. Y., vaudeville patrons watched one Louis Furtell's lion act; thrilled as one lion batted the man about the stage, like a big, shaggy kitten mauling a woolen doll around a nursery. Fine actor that lion tamer . . . acted as though he were hurt. Last week Actor Furtell died of his wounds...
Another St. Louis-Harvard man is Frederick Augustine Sterling. He was a big ranchman and woolen manufacturer until he was 35, when he began his diplomatic career at Petrograd. Since then he has toasted monarchs and men at Peking, at Petrograd again, at Washington, Paris, Lima. He has been second in command of the U. S. embassy in London since 1923. In 1922 the Irish Free State was founded. Last week the Secretary of State announced his appointment as first U. S. Minister to that part of Ireland which is governed from Dublin. Many an Irish-American was vexed that...
...must supervise their manufacture. So when he could not buy products that reached his standard, he made them himself. At Zion City, Ill., he got John Alexander Bowie's disciples to make lace for him. To the Virginia-North Carolina boundary he brought mountaineers to weave cotton and woolen fabrics in mills he built. His buyers bought at first hand in Europe, Africa, Asia, as well as in the Americas. In effect, he created a "vertical" business for his company by controlling raw material, manufacture and sale. No other retail business has done this so thoroughly and so successfully...
...paper underwear and three woolen sweaters; in paper socks with fleece-lined boots; with four pairs of mittens-paper, silk, wool, fleeced leather-and wool-edged goggles to keep his eyeballs from freezing, Pilot Jean Callizo climbed up and up from Le Bourget airdrome, near Paris, in his specially fitted altitude plane. It was late afternoon, with a high ceiling (cloud level). Picking a hole at 2,000 metres (about 6,600 ft.) Pilot Callizo steered up for "the edge of heaven." Beyond the clouds was fair weather...
...TIME May 31 [The White House Week], it was with interest that I noted that Mrs. Coolidge was the recipient of a woolen dress from a delegation of "14 Italian women," while "twelve Hungarian ladies" represented another presentation party...