Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...diplomacy and foreign relations and make that their specialty. I am inclined to let them have a free hand. . . . My inclinations are towards industry and the development of Spain. . . . I am a worker. . . . The idea that a King is a man who lives in a beautiful house surrounded by silk-dressed valets and plumed lackeys, fine soldiers and such sort of people-a kind of touch-me-not-is antiquated...
Every few months smart Jap Artist Foujita is a Paris sensation. Not long ago he appeared in Deauville wearing leopard skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt and a high silk hat. "Temperament" murmured gullibles. "Poseur!" stormed the jealous. The smart Deauvillites voted him jocularly their "best dressed...
...Chelsea at the end of a disconnected telephone-wire, and it is in Chelsea that his story begins. There one Charles Dograr, "a rare and sensitive soul" meets "one night at 5 a. m." a remarkably white-browed, long-handed old gentleman clad in a pair of long green silk stockings. Old Picrolas reveals that he is an eater of darkness. He controls a ray invention, by which he can not only see through distant men's brains but pulverize them as well. Hospitably, Picrolas offers Dograr a share in his ray-murders. Charmed, Dograr accepts. They...
...solution: selling cotton from the style standpoint and forgetting it from the thrift standpoint. U. S. prosperity had made many a woman, once a cotton-buyer, a purchaser of silk. The arrival of rayon, essentially a low-priced near-silk, had completed the defeat of cotton. The cheapness of cotton became not an asset but a liability, for textile trade follows the flag of fashion...
Most of the Association's investigations are more technical, less popular, than the standardization tin-silk tests. The Association has, for example, established a national safety code for elevators and escalators, has developed specification and rating systems for refrigerators; a standard for drafting room practice, and a standard for uniform proportions in bolts, nuts and rivets, are more characteristic undertakings. The Association is essentially a manufacturers' rather than a consumers' body; its purpose is to define, not to uplift...