Word: wrapped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...however, it appeared that the quiet days of yore have returned. For after the sudden death of Chairman McKinsey, Marshall Field directors decided not to appoint another rude outsider as chairman but to return to the time when the company was run by a man who "knew how to wrap a package...
Hitting a New High (RKO Radio). One of the few opera stars who can wear a feather skirt to obvious advantage is diminutive, fluty Lily Pons. A shrewd producer like Jesse L. Lasky, having seen petite Miss Pons in the gold brassiere and flowered wrap-around skirt of Lakme, could see at a glance that there was more in Miss Pons than met the ear. When Suzette (Lily Pons), singing in Paris with a jazz band, declares "It is to sing in opera that I would give my shirt," it is therefore not surprising that she should indeed trade...
Lucky the chorus girl who can persuade her wealthy benefactor to buy her a chinchilla wrap, one of the softest, most beautiful, most expensive of furs, also one of the least durable, one of the rarest. A chinchilla collar today costs $2,000, a coat $30,000. Chorus girls should have cheered last week at news that the U. S. chinchilla supply is about to increase...
...fourth and fifth innings, the Freshman ball team was well on its way to a victory over the Providence College Freshman nine at Providence Saturday. Three errors, two walks, and two hits, however, allowed the home team to cross the plate five times in the eighth canto and wrap up the encounter...
Tallest current tale of the tall comes from Teheran, capital of Iran (Persia). There, one Siah-Khan, at 18, is reported to be almost 12 ft. tall. His arms are supposed to be so long that he must wrap an arm once around his head to put food in his mouth...