Word: zipper
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...Beery used to own. Four hours later Mrs. Estes answered her telephone. Next day she was up & around the house. The second day she took her new baby motoring. Four days later she began to feed the infant the juice of raw vegetables. Last week, dressed in trousers and zipper shirt, she sat down on an iron lawn chair and posed for a picture with her 72-year-old husband and the ten children she has borne during 15 years of marriage...
...average price of $27.02 per cwt. Tobacco income was up 35% over last year, was five times greater than in 1931 when the average price was $8.86 per cwt. Tobacco farmers were pouring into North Carolina towns to spend their money on automobiles, zipper jackets, silk dresses. At a Winston-Salem warehouse, where the average price has been well over $30 per cwt., Farmer R.C. Johnson, patting his wallet, explained: "We paid our debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around...
...Best-dressed" seniors at America's leading colleges are definitely against the clumsy old-fashioned fly. Though they prefer the smooth flat slide-fastened fly, they are also opposed to the uncovered zipper which displays a strip of bare metal. Kover-Zip, the invisible seamline closure demanded by good taste, has won approval in college from coast to coast. Here are a few typical comments on Kover-Zip by college they selected as "best-dressed...
...invisible style-line closure, the Kover-Zip fly, has every practical advantage of the ordinary zipper, and in addition is superior to it from the standpoint of good taste because no metal shows--the units of the fastener are concealed by a grosgrain ribbon that harmonizes with the fabric of the trousers and is guaranteed to outlast the garment...
...yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...