Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into a Montparnasse bar strode pear-shaped Paul Poiret, famed coutourier, wearing a light woolen jacket, black sash, Japanese peasant's hat. With him was Artist Guy Arnaud, Legion of Honor man. Two Englishwomen giggled at M. Poiret's costume. Offended for his friend. Artist Arnaud rebuked them: "Mesdames, you have insulted a genius." Up rose one James Clark, U. S. escort of the Englishwomen. "Monsieur," said he, "you have insulted two ladies." Legionnaire Arnaud challenged Clark to a duel with rapiers. Mr. Clark, demanding his right as the challenged party, stipulated fists. M. Arnaud replied that if Mr. Clark...
Also like Lindbergh, who borrowed a suit from Ambassador Herrick's son, Mrs. Putnam borrowed a blue woolen dress from Ambassador Mellon's daughter, Mrs. David K. E. Bruce. To Correspondent John Steele of the Chicago Tribune ("World's Greatest Newspaper") all praise for scooping the world on Lady Astor's nightgown...
During the War, President Julius Forstmann of Forstmann Woolen Co. told the Government that its specifications for uniforms were poor. He was asked to write new ones. They were accepted and after the War his company received the Distinguished Service Certificate for the excellence of its deliveries. It was the only U. S. textile company to receive such an award...
...decided that business has hurt itself by subordinating quality to price appeal, using flamboyant sales promotion to cover shoddiness. He feels restoration of real value will be one of the first steps towards economic recovery. Last week his newly formed National Quality Maintenance League (which includes makers of woolens, silks, velvets, millinery, shoes, hosiery, handbags, underwear) was preparing a broad educational campaign to boost values, to calm down advertising writers. Many worsted & woolen makers feel that right now women do not want high quality so much as low price because of rapid style changes. They think "high styling" will have...
...Stimson, who had a mild case of laryngitis before he left Washington, presently found it so bad in Geneva that he had to sit at home in his ornate, rented Louis XVI villa ("The Stimson Musée") wearing heavy woolen socks, a bathrobe and silken muffler. Meanwhile, Scot MacDonald's doctors were pestering him with doctorish demands that he "take three full hours of complete relaxation and visual rest every day." In this atmosphere of inaction, invalidism and frustration correspondents set down...