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...will be interested to know that this background is an empire silk damask, woven by F. Schumacher & Co. especially for the famous Blue Room. It is the third time this design has been specially woven for the wall covering for this most important room. The first time was in 1902 while Theodore Roosevelt was President, the second in 1917 during Woodrow Wilson's term of office...
...Chicago told about its portable "Electro-Sonic" washing machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy jets through the tightest-woven cloth. There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes. The machine, says Fairbanks Ward can wash its own weight (14 lbs.) in clothes at one time...
Flowers of St. Francis (Angelo-Rizzoli; Joseph Burstyn). Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a cinematic garland by Director Roberto Rossellini (TIME...
Then followed the awful sentence in which the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Minnesota tore apart the veil of infallibility that generations of adulation had woven. "Appellant was a single man (thus disposing of occasional commercial rumors of a "Mrs. Claus"), 51 years old (presumably an arbitrary figure), and...in order to bring him up to the average man, intellectually, he must be measured by a yardstick of considerable elasticity." Claus v. Hall Mercantile Co., 157 Minn. 290, 196 N.W. 261. We can sympathize with the hurt Claus, clutching frantically at his flaming whiskers, but the judicial finding...
Flowers of St. Francis. Several episodes from the life of Francis of Assisi woven into a rich cinematic garland by Roberto Rossellini (TIME...