Word: woven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paris was there, in the newest hats, wide-brimmed, made of straw, flowers and ribbon, or woven of felt and silk in crossword puzzle patterns; President Doumergue wore his shiny topper; 250,000 people packed the enclosure; Britishers, brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...
...gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled, divided by "fiberizers," graded, woven...
...London. There is a balcony before the room window, so that anyone on the same floor of the hotel and of another hotel adjoining might have committed the murder. The clues are spread out before the reader with commendable fairness, but in baffling number. Two plots are so skilfully woven together that one has to wait for the writer to unravel them. Not until two-thirds of the way through the book does the writer find it necessary to conceal from the reader the surmises in the detective's mind. The writing is workman like ; only the proofreading is slipshod...
Died. Mrs. Henrietta King, 93, owner of the world's largest ranch (1,280,000 acres, near Kingsville, Tex.); in Kingsville. Her home on the ranch, the finest in the Southwest, contains tapestries, woven from her own designs, depicting the history of Texas and the cattle ranges...
...author has taken verbal photographs of the professors of law in their unguarded moments. Legal rigamarole and trite phrases of the classroom have been woven into a lifelike depiction of the Law School in grotesque...