Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...CRIMSON editors were entertained for an hour yesterday afternoon by the unique story of Frank Fielding, Radio Keith Orpheum's traveling usher, who is on his feet all but two hours each day and is one of six survivors in the International Collegiate Endurance Contest. Clothed in a light silk shirt, and white duck trousers, with a blue sash about his waist, the 19-year old Californian student appeared at 14 Plympton Street and told of the gruelling grind which hope of sharing in a $70,000 award is inducing him to continue until April...
...piled up. The Havemeyer house on 66th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, large as it was, began to look like a warehouse. When every inch of wall space was covered, Monets, Manets, Degas were piled in the closets. French bronzes and Japanese ivories found their way into Mr. Havemeyer's silk hats, among his collars. Exuberant, enthusiastic Mrs. Havemeyer kept on buying...
...parachute is a hollow hemisphere of strong, light silk or cotton, diameter varying from 22 ft. to 28 ft., with shroud lines running from the rim of the fabric to a harness worn around the body of the jumper. The parachute idea is credited to Leonardo da Vinci, mathematician and scientist as well as painter and sculptor, in 1495 (in his tome Codex Atlanticus...
Another advt. told in quaint and cryptic English of silk stockings "which will not entangle your dress nor will they cause it to wear...
Passionately extolled were Yamato Furs: "artificial furs . . . absolutely safe from worm damage, as they are not made of woollen materials . . . but . . . silk . . . having an extremely good flexibility and they never shrink...