Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Silk Stocking...
...unsettling household word, although the U.S. was not yet his colony. Hitler was still widely regarded as a hysterical Munich beer-hall brawler who could have benefited from Freud's treatment. In headlines "holocaust" was only a word for a large fire. Japan's chief export was raw silk. The jet set did not yet exist; its precursor, the smart set, took a week to cross the Atlantic. The juxtaposition of "man" and "moon" was strictly fantasy...
Before the White House portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
There are only a few major raw materials of which the U. S. does not have its own supplies. Such are rubber and tin. Such also is silk. Last week, however, the U. S. awarded Patent No. 2,130,948 to the late W. H. Carothers, former chemist for E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. The apparel trade, which had for some time heard rumors of the new Du Pont product under the name of Fibre 66, believed it might prove the first practical process for manufacturing synthetic silk entirely from chemicals...
...sent a note of protest to the disturbers. At 5 a.m. the noise and the party ceased. The party was given by two newlyweds, David Tennant (son of Viscountess Grey of Fallodon) and Mrs. Tennant (nee Hermione Baddeley, actress). They wore orange sleeping suits of silk; the guests, too, came in blazing pajamas; many brought bottles of hair restorers, ink, gasoline, Thames water. Champagne was not lacking. After the party, Mrs. Tennant said: "Bottle and pajama parties ought to be the vogue in weather like the present . . . I think London will take to the idea...