Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which were loaned or rented to housewives (in the 'gos) by a reputable concern which then bought, at what then seemed a fair price, all of the whip-lashes that a busy farm wife and mother could produce in her spare time. The lashes were made of pure silk in many bright colors, and were used exclusively for ornamenting the tips of buggy whips. As a child, I often watched my aunt operating such a machine in her farm kitchen within a few miles of Baptist Corner...
...teeming streets of Saigon are magically emptied by the abrupt rain squalls. At one minute the Rue Catinat,* the city's main street, is 'busy as usual. Stores named in French and Annamite peddle silks and souvenirs, white-topped Vietnamese police amble along, Foreign Legionnaires crowd sidewalk cafes, civilians in shorts sip cafe au lait in front of the fashionable bar of La Pagode. Women, slim and petite, add color with their cai-at (a vivid silk gown split at the hips, worn over silk pajamas...
...named Devil's Brother. When the cops arrived, they found pans, bundles and other impedimenta from the mule's pack scattered over the highway, and the beast itself engaged in a tug of war with Owner Clarence Hornbeck, a cadaverous, 58-year-old man in a tall silk hat. Hornbeck's explanation: he had bet some friends in Galesburg, Ill. that he could walk the mule to New York, bum a cigarette from a radio comedian and walk the mule back. What was he doing on the Pulaski Skyway? Why, just going home...
Then, in the middle of the long trial, big Tom suffered a heart attack. He listened to closing arguments from a stretcher, picking his nose moodily and getting an occasional shot of morphine from a hovering nurse. Last week an ambulance rushed Tom, resplendent in yellow silk pajamas, from an Oakland hospital to the courtroom to hear the jury's verdict. It found him guilty of stealing $14,750 from his followers (maximum penalty: 50 years). Said Tom Patten, flat on his back but still cocky: "There'll be a battle royal before they get me behind bars...
...Poems and The Notebooks of Malte Laurīds Brigge were making him the talk of European intellectuals. From his large, sensual mouth came a flood of such poetic fancies as his description of a tangerine, "in which a summer is folded up very small like an Italian silk handkerchief in a nutshell...