Word: corking
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...that indoor-outdoor carpeting isn't soft either, and it doesn't wear well," Miss Porritt said. "We talked to architects all last spring, and for the sake of maintenance and quiet, cork is the most satisfactory substance...
Students at work in the Hilles penthouse will be much less likely to doze off this year. The carpet is gone, and cork tiling isn't nearly as soft...
...carpeting had been completely ruined last year by food and drinks spilled by students coming from the coffeehouse, Miss Porritt said. "I know that cork is not as soft to sit on," she added, "but sanitary reasons were paramount. We were faced with the problems of bugs...
Dark Shadows also has a recorded repertory of 3,000 sound effects and a few tricks that go back to radio days. The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle. The bats themselves are plastic and wired for flight. Coffins, cakes of dry ice (for eerie ground fog) and quarts of stage blood litter the studio. To spook up the manor with cobwebs, the crew flings chunks of latex into an electric fan, which scatters them authentically over the walls...
...mistress he shared with the Prince of Wales, he missed the boat train to Liverpool. His ship, the Bothnia, was to dock in Ireland before continuing to New York, so Frewen caught the night boat to Dublin, hired a special train to speed him to the port in Cork, and arrived just as the Bothnia steamed out of the harbor. He had, however, cabled his brother Richard, who was already on board, to send a tender for him, and he made a dashing transfer to the Bothnia...