Word: silk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...York Metropolitans will present a set of silk colors to the college club making the best record against them...
Harvard, Princeton and Yale will play the Metropolitans at the polo grounds during Easter. The college nine making the best record will be presented with silk foul flags. - [Yale News...
Vanderbilt has had two hundred yards of costly silk hangings woven at the celebrated establishment of Cheney Bros., for his new mansion in New York. The hand embroidery on this beautiful material cost nearly four thousand dollars. The silk draperies made by the same concern expressly for him are delicately interwoven with threads of pure gold and cost fifty dollars per yard...
...English trade journal gives the following account of a curious New Year's custom which is annually observed at Queen's College, Oxford: "After a dinner given to people indirectly connected with the college, the senior bursar delivers to each guest a needle furnished with a length of silk, with the injunction, 'Take this and be thrifty, and begin the new year with industry.' Contrary to a common belief, this is not the condition of a tenure, nor does any advantage accrue to the institution by its observance. There is nothing particular about the needles either. To be precise, they...
Rubenstein wears a silk hat on Saturdays. Fact. - [Ex.] Are we to infer from this that the gentleman goes bare-headed the rest of the week...