Word: woolman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Utah's Smoot, no great wit, was joking. A onetime woolman, he knows West Riding woolens...
Thus editorialed, last week, the Yorkshire Post, chief organ of the woolen industry in Yorkshire, England. To point the moral of its editorial the Post recalled that potent Yorkshire Woolman John Moore is about to dismantle his English mills and transfer the machinery to Victoria, British Columbia...
...arts department of New York University, a course sponsored by Manhattan society matrons including Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. August Belmont, Mrs. Reginald de Koven, Mrs. Murray Crane, and having for its classroom, at fashionable three o'clock on Thursdays, the ballroom of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Editress Edna Woolman Chase and Miss Caroline Duer of the Vogue staff were announced as assistant lecturers, making it clearer than ever that of all fashion publications, the Nastian was held pre-eminent by New York University authorities. Problems and topics to be treated by Publisher Nast and his assistants, with demonstrations...
Marcus Antoninus "as good or better than Jesus." She corresponded with Rousseau, whom she deemed to have known few fine women. She read Toland, Tindal, Hume, Locke, Grey, Campion, Herrick, Pope and Shakespeare, among others, never without intelligent commentary. On a pamphlet by John Woolman, the Quaker, noted that he had "used B. Franklin and D. Hall of Philadelphia" as his printers. "A new book," she said, "is always the event of the week...
Married. Ilka Chase, 20, actress, daughter of Editor Edna Woolman Chase of Vogue, to Louis Calhern, 28, stock company actor; at Irondequoit...