Word: silkworms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will sing almost any tune for almost anybody who provides the coin. When a young hellionaire (Philip Reed) murders his wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems to care deeply, because he tries so hard, but his performance never really hits the target. He cannot seem to distinguish between beau and Darrow...
...boiling up several hundred sows' ears into "glue" resembling a silkworm's glandular secretion, adding acetone to make jelly, filtering and spinning under high pressure into fine "threads" hardened with chrome alum and formaldehyde, weaving on a hand loom...
Said one Tokyo silk exporter last week: "Among silk exporters the Honorable Tilton is on a level equal to the mulberry leaf and the silkworm." The Honorable Tilton is Marion Elizabeth Tilton, 35, the tall (5 ft. 9 in.), pretty Far East boss of Cohn-Hall-Marx (Cohama Fabrics). In the last ten years, almost singlehanded she has rewoven Japan's quality silk industry, putting it in shape to compete in the U.S. with the flood of postwar synthetics. Under the tutelage of the onetime New York model and wartime Red Cross girl, Japan's silk output rose...
...silk industry, once the nation's biggest dollar earner. It seemed a hopeless job. A wartime government order scrapping silk looms as nonessential wrecked the industry in Japan, while U.S. scientists wrecked it abroad by giving women a new set of materials which no hard-working silkworm could hope to match...
...should be north or south . . . It is comparatively unimportant whether the head or the feet are at the north end of the bed, but it is very important that . . . the body should lie . . . south-north or north-south." On what to wear: "A very long, pure silkworm silk nightgown, sleeveless with a lace top, wide, and so long that it trails for about eight inches on the ground when one stands up . . . no horrid draughts anywhere." On twin beds: "An invention of the devil, jealous of married bliss...