Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pont laboratory, experiments have been carried on with these and scores of other chemicals. What they hope to find eventually is a moth-killer which will impregnate a fabric like dye, will not be removed by washing or dry-cleaning. Moths eat almost any animal tissue-wool, silk, feathers, even leather and deer antlers. They will not, however, eat wool if it is completely sterile. Presumably impurities in the air and traces of perspiration provide spice enough under ordinary conditions...
...Premier Leon Blum's 65th birthday, yeggs broke into the Paris office of the silk business run by his three brothers, blew the safe with an acetylene torch, stole...
When he saw it was me he stepped back." The girl, shown by the autopsy to have been drinking heavily, left her escort at her door, entered her apartment, took off her coat and dress in the bathroom, washed out her silk stockings and hung them over the edge of the tub to dry, cold-creamed her face and put her hair up in curlers...
...early 18th Century famed British Admiral Edward Vernon made it his whim to wear a cloak of heavy French grosgrain silk. The Admiral's tars called him "Old Grogram," an English corruption of grosgrain current for a century before. As a temperance measure Old Grogram introduced the rule that rum must never be served straight to enlisted men but mixed with water and this mixture was soon being called "Grogram . . . Grog . . . grog...
...have become good, although, as yet, limited in scope." What he thinks of himself as a writer he modestly leaves between the lines. He avers that Cavalcade, his most successful play, was written "straight"-not, as often rumored, "with my tongue in my cheek, in bed, probably wearing a silk dressing-gown and shaking with cynical laughter." Like Coward's plays, Present Indicative strikes many a theatrically effective note of frankness. When he was a child-actor in London he used to steal waitresses' fourpenny tips to eke out his meagre lunches...