Word: woollens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Miss Hopper stepped up to the Roosevelt door, rang and rang, roused up a friend, who roused up James Roosevelt. Samuel Goldwyn's Vice President appeared in a woollen bathrobe, one foot slippered, the other bare. Said he graciously: "Oh, hello, Hedda." Miss Hopper handed him the story. James Roosevelt studied it a moment, shrugged and.said...
...South Barre, Mass., a deputy sheriff on duty in a woollen strike handed in his badge. He said his feet hurt, he didn't like the smell of tear gas, and he was promised...
Britannia Waives the Rules is sympathetically introduced by emancipated Britisher D. B. Wyndham Lewis, who strikes the highest note in the book by quoting an anonymous Irish poet: " 'Every time I land at Dover I feel as if I were being softly butted behind by a brown woollen elephant with blue glass eyes...
...Wrangell, Alaska, the temperature climbed to 100°, where it had never been seen before. Near Chicago in Cook County's Oak Forest Infirmary 3,983 aged, penniless inmates still wore their woollen shirts, long winter underwear, ate oatmeal and corned beef hash, and worked in the sun-baked fields. In five days 39 of them dropped dead. Missouri had over 400 deaths. And one day during the hot spell there was a brisk snowfall at Colorado Springs...
Passionately extolled were Yamato Furs: "artificial furs . . . absolutely safe from worm damage, as they are not made of woollen materials . . . but . . . silk . . . having an extremely good flexibility and they never shrink...