Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stood apart, alone. He, too, wore a Chesterfield, but the striped trousers of morning dress individualized him. With easy dignity, he carried a mace--a long, metal staff topped by a medallion. Many saluted him, but he stood apart, with his mace and his tall silk hat. And a cigarette hanging out of his mouth...
...gleams like a highly polished skillet. Beveridge began by selling stereopticon viewers, joined Fuller Brush as a door-to-door salesman in 1913. He was sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded Stanley Home Products, and with six associates sold $72,000 worth of polishes and brushes the first year...
...that gave such milk I'd dress her in the finest silk, Feed her on the choicest hay, And milk her 40 times...