Word: silken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back of the last row in a famed Parisian theatre, an old man leaned heavily on his cane. A bushy white beard he had, and silken hair on his head, tres distingue...
...Lucky Break. An insignificant comedy which should have been set to music, brought back to the stage George MacFarlane. He used to blend his baritone into the silken doings of light opera. In memory of this they gave him three songs to sing in addition to his acting. The latter was without distinction, fitting poorly into the whole scheme. He was a millionaire who suddenly lost his money and found the world immensely kind to millionaires without a cent...
Last week at Jackson Mills (Ocean Co.), N. J., one George W. Perry, geologist of Los Angeles, Calif., reluctantly demonstrated to incredulous newspaper reporters the "Perry Mineral Indicator," a tripod apparatus fitted with compass, dials and a brass cylinder like the weight from a grandfather clock, suspended by a silken, tubular thread. Perry claimed that the cylinder contained secret ingredients which caused it to oscillate, gyrate, agitate when in the vicinity of subterraneau oil, even thousands of feet in the earth. He, Perry, was the only living soul that could operate the marvelous machine, which he did by bringing...
...north of everything else, may not be found by MacMillan, may or may not cause a quarrel between Canada and Maine. Why Maine? "Because," said Governor Brewster in the farewell banquet given the explorers at Wiscasset, "this land will belong to Maine." And he presented MacMillan with the silken flag of the state to plant on this hypothetical land by way of a stake-claim notice...
...other countries were passing. In the writing, there was a rich personal flavor, informal yet dignified, unhurried but never verbose. Each issue was a monolog by an unprejudiced ruminative man who was as likely to weave into his discourse some bright strand of slang as some fibrous or silken or homespun thread from Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, Mark Rutherford, Andrew Marvell...