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...Lexicographer Partridge "no word is a mere word." Words, says he, become the "mirror of society and the index of civilization." * Sometimes a word travels as far as history itself. Sherry was "the wine of Jerez," cambric the "linen made at Cambrai," and tobacco the product of the West Indian island of Tobago...
...nice, thick, long-sleeved 'shift' of rough, scratchy serge . . . Stays, shoulder-strapped and severely boned, concealed one's outline; over them, two long serge petticoats were lashed securely round one's waist. Last came the ample habit-coat of heavy cloth, topped by a linen rochet and a stiffly starched barbette of cambric . . ." Discarding this medieval costume, Monica donned the fashions of the '403, beginning with "an airy nothing" and an uplift bra. "Frankly, I was appalled...
...briefs the President on the latest military and political intelligence, resigned as chief of the National Security Council, effective Jan. 15. A wartime Navy intelligence officer (and a rear admiral in the Naval Reserve), first chief of the postwar Central Intelligence system, and board chairman of a prospering linen supply company on the side, Souers stayed out of the headlines and close to the President's ear. Among his tasks: refereeing between the State Department and the defense establishment...
...fine state of preservation also results from the handmade linen paper on which it was printed. Experts of the Harvard University Press say that the paper will not fade from its original white for at least another 500 years. Other Gutenberg Bibles, printed on more expensive vellum, have already darkened considerably. The "paper" of the latter is effected by the animal oil in the sheepskin which composes vellum...
...child, called Yeshua, is proud to be known as "Mother's boy." Miriam calls him "tinoki" (baby) and dresses him in spotless white linen. She cannot help, as he grows older, setting him apart from his brothers, the sons she bears to Joseph.* When Yeshua begins to sense his Messiahship (in a miraculous answer to prayer at 13), Miriam's life becomes a struggle between motherly joy and motherly foreboding. After the miracle of the wine at the wedding in Cana, she loses sight of him until just before the end. Asch brings her into the Garden...