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Miss Hall belongs to that school of musicomedy prima donnas which signifies its charm and purity by assuming too, too graceful postures, willowing all over the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

The order of the manufacturing processes is as follows:—mixing, willowing, teasing, scribbling and carding.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various

The inefficiency of many workers was very clear and training schemes resulted—for typing, shorthand, in leather work, chair seat willowing, in cookery, dressmaking and dress-cutting, home nursing, etc.

From Women and War Work by Fraser, Helen




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