Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewiston, Me. Mr. Ford, entranced by Mr. Dunham's rendition of "Turkey in the Straw" & "Boston Fancy," took him to Detroit for one of his old-fashioned parties. A vaudeville tour afterward did not go to his head. Playing on Broadway, he still wore mackinaw, rubber shoes, woolen shirt. In his own district, where there were lots of fiddlers, he was famed for his snowshoes. His proudest boast was that he equipped Rear-Admiral Robert Edwin Peary for snowshoeing to the North Pole...
...prosperity of France last month, many curious eyes turned to France's neighbor and ally, Belgium. Last week Associated Press correspondents finished a report on Belgium's economic position which showed that the people for whom Britons and U. S. citizens once knit thousands of pairs of woolen socks today have the most balanced economic position in Europe, with the possible exception of the Swiss and Dutch...
...reporters perspiring in the Red Sea heat, St. Gandhi explained that only if the weather became exceptionally cold would he modify his famed loincloth in Britain. Then he would wear a woolen loincloth, reaching his ankles, and a white cotton jacket, specially woven for him by big-toed Raymond Duncan, esthete brother of the late great Isadora. ¶ On Sunday the Mahatma attended Christian service in the Rajputana's main saloon. Because it is his favorite hymn his thin reedy voice was heard piping "Lead Kindly Light" amid the enshrouding boom of British baritones...
...delegate of the nations who signed the Kellogg Pact in Paris, surrounded by 50 photographers, the proper inkwell could not be brought in because of its enormous size, they had to content themselves with a Sevres set? No, it's only- in comes slouching, gray woolen socks a-dangle-our Reinhold, that quite insignificant figure, a mouse-gray lad in mouse- gray." But Doblin has other more Car-lylean tricks up his sleeve. "And if you ask again whether there is any justice in the world, you'll have to be satisfied with the reply...
...suitors. A Dublin sleuth slipped into David's little whitewashed hut and hid under a bed for many hours. There he overheard a whispered conversation between David O'Shea and his sister. Sister O'Shea went out of the cabin with a bucket containing one yellow woolen sock and a leather gaiter, which she burned. That was enough for the sleuth. He searched the grounds and found parts of Ellen O'Sullivan's smallclothes hidden in David O'Shea's hedge. Assistants pulled the other sock, the other gaiter...