Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar fate pursues Ingunn and her master. In righteous wrath Olav had secretly killed Ingunn's lover, but nevertheless married Ingunn to love and cherish her. "Now at last they were safely together. He passed his hand over her shoulder and arm?it was cool and soft as silk; the coverlet had slipped down. He drew it up, bending over her with caresses, and she replied from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies...
Another ritual the author witnessed: garbed as half man, half woman in a ruffled shirt, cutaway coat, silk hat, and cigar stub, Papa Nebo, an hermaphrodite, wrought mysteries with corpses, pronounced the oracle of the dead. Other corpses, zombies, worked in the cane fields, strictly supervised. To a white they seemed rather like gaunt imbeciles with their keeper. But how was it that often blacks had seen their relatives buried, only to find them weeks later in servitude as zombies? In the criminal code Author Seabrook found the weird explanation. Such are the African intimacies that share popularity with Roman...
Fruits, vegetables. Trading in futures (raw silk, rubber, cocoa, not yet harvested) permits the producer and buyer to protect himself against unforeseen crop disasters. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange offers this hedging-by-speculation privilege in butter and eggs only. Last week its members considered new commodity admissions-other milk products, vegetables, fruits, canned foods. Cheesemakers, potato and apple growers, canners would, they argued, enjoy the financial protection against plant and animal scourges. Chicago commodity brokers would, obviously, enjoy increased commissions...
Francis Bacon. "He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk. The detachment of speculation, the intensity of personal pride, the uneasiness of nervous sensibility, the urgency of ambition, the opulence of superb taste-these qualities, blending, twisting, flashing together, gave to his secret spirit the subtle and glittering superficies of a serpent. . . . The music sounds, and the great snake rises, and spreads its hood, and leans and hearkens, swaying in ecstasy; and even so the Lord Chancellor, in the midst of some great sentence, some high intellectual confection, seems to hold his breath in a rich beatitude, fascinated...
...silk manufactures...