Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white pine, and all parts are mailed and not glued, as popular superstition would have it. The cover is made of solid pieces of Spanish cedar, and is also only one-eighth of an inch thick, and is mailed on, not glued. The deck is covered with waterproof silk...
...holes, but Nephtalie Kahn never lost his temper. In all he has embroidered 26 eggs. Some of his better known pieces are the ostrich series, showing a butterfly, the salamander of Francois I. and a Gallic cock on which he employed 214 different colors of silk. His masterpiece is a duck egg called "Rouen" which bears the arms of the city. It contains 5,342 holes, some of them only 1/10 millimeter apart. It took him eight months to embroider it and before the egg was blown, drilled and embroidered Brodeur Kahn performed 256,000 different egg-operations...
...ancestors, has a social secretary, goes to a few bridge parties. She seldom accompanies her husband around the State or nation on his speaking trips. She did go to California with him last year and then her friends gave her a "bridal shower" at which she received her first silk nightgown. She has learned that her husband goes into profound abstractions when his mind is thinking out some problem, that he is never to be disturbed at such times. Many a time at 3 a. m. the figure of a tall, lank, stoop-shouldered man can be seen pacing...
...same office with Walter Gropius as a young man. Two years ago he followed Gropius as director of the Bauhaus. Unlike copious Gropius, who has designed innumerable buildings, van der Rohe has actually built little-possibly because of his fondness for luxurious building materials : interior walls of onyx, silk curtains 75 feet long...
...days ago by a haberdasher. Himself a knight of the garter, and true kin of the man who created Father's Day to sell more ties, he invoked the spirit of Dunster devotion, of Leverett loyalty, to ring up his cash-register. He had samples made, he set silk-mills a spinning with a three hundred dollar check; and presently his window on the avenue flashed forth its stripes of purple, blue, and green. But alas, this rainbow touched no pot of gold. Many paused to stare but few went in to buy. "Today the window is empty...