Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ponderous mockery Senator Norris of Nebraska picked up a yellow woolen garment from the tariff exhibit called "Grundy's store" and commenced to declaim...
Mann of Buddenbrooks. In the early 18th Century the House of Mann was great in the woolen draping trade at Nuremberg, ancient, free and most glamorous of German cities. Novelist Mann has told in his Buddenbrooks, aptly dubbed "The German Forsyte Saga," of the rise and decline of a great merchant family almost precisely like his own. His father was a Senator and twice Mayor of Lübeck, the Hanseatic Capital where Thomas was born 54 years ago, when Hanseatic troops still dipped their colors at a Mann's approach...
...Majesty the Queen officially opened the annual exhibition of Queen Mary's London Needlework Guild last week. She beamed with pride at the principal exhibit: three soft woolen scarves knit by the busy fingers of Edward of Wales, her eldest, and three other scarves knit by her youngest son Prince George...
...pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just how to handle the Sherlockian pipe, as crooked and heavy as a revolver...
Scorning his self-designed "Japanese" bed with its carved and gilded dragon headboard, he sat upright by his desk, his soft felt trench cap on his big head, grey woolen gloves on his hands, writing, correcting proof, revising his new book that is so nearly ready, between fits of drowsing in his chair...