Word: doeskin
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...babies die. A funeral for a child under three months of age costs $300 in Grand Boulevard, not including the grave. The coffin is pine, covered with white doeskin on the outside and crepe within. It measures between 24 in. and 30 in. in length by 12 in. in width. Sometimes, as a courtesy, the funeral director will include a pink or blue ribbon across the inside of the coffin...
...That band is noticeable today. In December 1884, a 100-oz. aluminum cap was placed on the spike-shaped peak. Then on a wintry Saturday morning in February, the dapper President Chester Arthur, according to a contemporary account, "laid his silk hat at his side, slowly removed his heavy doeskin gloves and deposited them in it, held his eyeglasses on his nose" and read the official dedication. Mathew Brady, the famous photographer of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, who had also photographed the monument's construction, was on hand to record the finish. He snapped a picture...
...flaw in Raquel's career so far: no one has seen her movies. She made Fantastic Voyage, playing a nurse who journeys through a man's bloodstream, and One Million B.C., in which she had but two words, "Tumak" and "Akita," but got to wear a doeskin bikini. Those films have not yet been released. But the bikini brought her to the attention of foreign moviemakers, who promptly cast her in seven major pictures, all of which still have to see the light of day. She is now winding up work on The Biggest Bundle of Them...
...taught it to belch fire. A saturnine dandy with flowing shoulder-length blond hair and a dress coat aglitter with medals, he combined virtuosity with showmanship, worked himself into such a lather that he would sometimes faint. Women hurled their jewels on the stage and fought over the green doeskin gloves that he deliberately left on the piano...
...plus 3,000 Brillo pads. Harry James wrapped a Kleenex around the end of his trumpet and demonstrated that its blasts would not break the tissue. That was worth $30,000 to him. Now, when he comes onstage in his nightclub appearances, people wave Kleenex at him. Or perhaps Doeskin...