Word: silken
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...Twin silken petals...
...being" Grandfather Crumb, old, defeated, hopeless, ignored by the other Crumbs, but rising above them. Leda's defenses were being beaten down by the sheer gross weight of the Crumbs when Barnaby came. He was the divorced husband of Richmiel, and he came to take from her silken clutch their boy Oliver. It was inevitable that Leda should find in the imaginative nobility of Barnaby a possible release. And it was equally inevitable that Barnaby should find in the clear glass of Leda's sensitive beauty the reflection of his need. Richmiel, feline in her jealousies, refused...
...recognition of its spirit and phenomenal rapidity in development the Regiment will be presented with colors on Memorial Day: one stand from the Harding Uniform Company, and a silken stand from the "Ladies of Boston." As the progress of this organization has not been equalled in a similar period of time by any military body of students in the United States, the Regiment has set for itself a standard, acknowledged by the community, which it will find both difficult and profitable to follow...
...Harvard also is a great favorite with the girls, but not so many of them have waltzed with a real Harvard student, and Yale and Princeton are ahead. West Point, though, is away up in front. No civilian, no matter how darling his mustache and wavy its silken ends, can compare with the roughly shaved cadet; the bell button, with its imaginative tinkling and figurative heart shape, outweighs...
...tablets in Memorial Hall were decorated as usual yesterday, with silken flags. In some instances flowers were brought and placed before the tables...