Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such bold banking talk, the scrappy little New York Daily News (circulation: 1,550,000) ran a cartoon to point up an accompanying editorial titled: "The Bankers Are a Funny Race." Emerging from a cyclone cellar in the cartoon was the pot-bellied figure with cane, cigar, spats and silk hat that traditionally represents the banker. The figure, however, wore neither pants nor coat and only the tattered remnants of a shirt around his neck. In confusion about the figure lay twisted steel rails, bits of machinery, other wreckage left by a black twister labeled "Rugged Individualism." Disappearing...
...observations of man and life which he put into Man, the Unknown began when Alexis Carrel, son of a silk merchant, was a medical student at the University of Lyons. There he acquired surgical dexterity by tying two pieces of catgut with his index and middle fingers inside a small cardboard box so securely that no one could untie them with two hands. He also achieved the feat of sewing 500 stitches into a single sheet of cigaret paper. Shortly after graduation he did two surgical tricks that brought him quick professional reputation. He devised the most successful...
...discouraged talk. In that uneasy silence the body, clad in the uniform of a Red Commander with a shroud over the legs, lay on a block of black granite, beneath a tent-shaped enclosure of glass. The bald, Slavic head with scrubby, rufous beard and mustache rested on a silk pillow. From the ridge of the glass enclosure shielded lights glowed on the waxy features of the man who proclaimed the World Revolution of the World Proletariat. Other light there was none. Through that gloom, by last week, more than 8,000,000 persons had passed. Last year Scientists Zbarsky...
With Faris, Carl Raswan rode over the billowing dunes of the Nufud, whose red sands, "saturated with sunshine," looked as if they had been covered with crimson silk. They hunted panther and ostrich, saw gazelles, outrode a prolonged sandstorm that nearly killed them all. Carl Raswan studied desert customs, developed an affection for the noble, helpless, panicky, good-natured camel, learned to eat locust, which he liked roasted but not boiled...
...aloud for world peace. Then the Abuna prayed God in Arabic to "break arms and quench the fire of war," to know that Ethiopia is thankful for the sympathy extended by other peace-loving nations. Haile Selassie approached the Abuna, kissed the prelate's silver cross draped in silk. The bearded Emperor put on his shoes, walked out among his subjects, drove back to his palace and breakfast...