Word: cocoon
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...headed Mike Walton decided to rescue the lovely sheltered Julia from her maternal cocoon, but once he had married her he found himself, like Ulysses, in a land where it was always afternoon. The way in which he won his freedom and at last induced Julia to face up to life may not add to the sum of human knowledge, but it won its author the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook contest and will probably win her several times 10,000 readers...
...Last Effort. Out of the caterpillar of war, through the cocoon of Versailles, was hatched that beautiful butterfly, the League of Nations. Ardent apologists for the League-which still exists in form and largely in exile-insist that its prime purpose was not to stop wars once they had reached or passed the boiling point, but rather to promote international cooperation. "A place for talk" is the way League-loving Sir John Fischer Williams describes...
...building for making airplane engines. Over its steel framework contractors had first built a fibreboard shell, so that workmen, sheltered inside, could lay brick and pour concrete through winter weather. Last week the building, almost a fifth of a mile long, was hatching, pink and raw, out of its cocoon. By June, Pratt & Whitney double Wasp engines should be rolling...
...eerie tolling and in North Conway a house caught fire. In Salem, Mass, a rare Japanese tile gargoyle in the Peabody Museum fell and shattered. In Albany, N. Y. a huge Christmas tree in the State Office Building toppled. In Portland, Me. a butterfly came out of its cocoon, flew around. In Chicopee Falls, Mass, a water main cracked. In Central Falls, R. I. instruments and bottles in the glass cases of an operating room rattled while surgeons were operating. In Nashua, N. H. a church's stained-glass windows were broken. In Weymouth, Mass, an automobile rolled...
...Japanese did not stress a few facts : > 1939's summer-autumn cocoon crop is the biggest in six years, estimated...