Word: cocoon
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...broad-minded of schoolmarms twitch uneasily. But it is easy to say that one of these Freshman has profited by their example in ten easy lessons. For lately a broken leg cast was found luxuriously occupying an entire bureau draw in Hollis. Some Harvard butterfly had indeed shed its cocoon...
Just before noon, when the fast was to end, a boy Untouchable began slicing and squeezing oranges. Little Latmaja Naidu, daughter of India's foremost Poetess Sarojini Naidu, tiptoed to the cot. St. Gandhi was too weak to raise his head, but from the middle of the cocoon his eyes flashed behind their thick spectacles...
Butterflies grow up in odd places. The cabbage butterfly, in its caterpillar state, will sometimes pupate on firewood, often emerges from its cocoon in midwinter, much to the astonishment of gentlemen warming their feet in fireplaces. The cybele will lay eggs only on violets...
Tennessee's most potent publisher, one of her most potent personalities is big, athletic, round-faced Colonel Luke Lea. At 51 he is already wrapped in a cocoon of legend: the man who, at 32, was the youngest U. S. Senator ever to sit legally; who, a fighting colonel of field artillery, nearly completed an attempt to kidnap the Kaiser from a castle in Holland as a Christmas gift to President Wilson. With Banker-Promoter Rogers Clark Caldwell, he bought the Memphis Commercial Appeal and Appeal (evening) for $3,600,000 in 1927, the Knoxville Journal...
Originally Dr. Olaya had arranged with the State Department to come out of his ministerial cocoon as a butterfly head-of-state in mid-June. Unexpectedly the State Department learned that Julio Prestes, President-elect of Brazil, planned to return President Hoover's goodwill visit in mid-June. The prospect of two Latin-American Presidents-elect simultaneously in Washington unnerved the State Department's master of protocol to the point of requesting Dr. Olaya to advance his transmogrification...