Word: cocoon
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Calvin Coolidge has a candidacy. Nonetheless, the question now arises: how soon will he step out of the cocoon of work to unfold the glittering wings of an active candidate? There was a press report abroad which said in so many words that by the middle of December 'Mr. Coolidge's boom would be loud in every state; his preconvention campaign manager and submanagers would be picked; their headquarters would dot the country...
...plays (TIME, Oct. 29) plus various musical revues now current in Manhattan were intent upon the discussion or display of feminine attraction and its results upon a fallible mankind. So intent were six of these that the Society for the Suppression of Vice began to move restlessly in its cocoon. There was danger that it might burst and become a full-fledged moth to eat through the linings of the managers' money bags. But no. The managers, the actors, the playwrights put their hard old heads together. A plan developed...
...silk. Artificial silk is made mainly of either cotton linters or wood pulp, treated with picric acid; various secret processes give the resulting cellulose the required viscosity and sheen, by forcing it through tiny holes and spinning it?just the process of the silk worm when it spins its cocoon...
Your poilu has burst his cocoon and stands glittering before the world--an Aspirant. He is proud of himself--and more at peace than ever before in his life...
...sooth, it is the beginning of the end. The cap and gown garb is a sort of cocoon from which the Senior will emerge as a very humble moth in June. But the cocoon days are happy ones, and rightly. The soberness of the robe signifies no corresponding gloom in the class; Nineteen-fourteen has not assumed black to mark its declining days. On the contrary, Nineteen-fourteen is just beginning to live. What with Junkets and picnics, and bright days and gay nights, cap and gown time will pass quickly and merrily. So, paraphrasing the advice given...