Word: starching
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...shaving; like the droplets that stole into the wooden wedges of Egyptian quarrymen exhuming stone for the Pyramids; like droplets that will steal into compressed Chinese waterflowers to make them bloom in bowls on Occidental library tables-so stole droplets of the yellow Yangtze flood in between the starch layers of the Rhineland's myriad passive beans, making them swell and shoulder one another, making their mass bulge and press against the triple-riveted bulkheads, until the bulkheads slowly burst and the Rhineland, despite salvaging efforts, was a total wreck. Scientific name for the creeping of the droplets: capillary...
...beginning of the second act. If the company are human, they, and especially Eaton himself, will feel pardonably neverous about including anything so "heavy." That the Legend of the Drums drew a few guffaws on Graduates' Night, is no proof that it will be laughed at before a starch and chiffon audience in fact, to the contrary. The Legend of the Drums is not only an excellent narrative poem, but it fits in admirably with the spirit of the play. If an audience is forced to laugh too much it gets tired of laughing...
...disease works into the scalp and down the neck. The toxins are filtering through the lymphatic fluids. The patient is feverish and drowsy. Heretofore the only cure has been to let the disease run its course, to ease the pain by hot fomentations, by the application of powdered starch, and by giving nourishing, easily digested foods. After a few days the beginning edges of the stain fade to a sickly yellow, which follows after the wave of red. The skin scales off in tiny flakes. The fever subsides. Later the skin resumes its normal tone. One attack of erysipelas does...
...glut of cheap potatoes, one recourse is always open to growers to prevent spoilage-to sell to the starch factories. Certain starch factories open only when potato prices are low, and on rising prices promptly close. Last year 6,500 carloads of potatoes went into starch, but high-potato prices this year will presumably leave starch-makers none at all. But the Bangor & Aroostook Railroad is not worrying. Potato farmers in Maine are profiting under present high prices, even though output is lower. When they start spending the proceeds, the Aroostook expects very good inbound freight...
Forbes paled. The starch apparently melted out of rotund Mr. Thompson. The maximum penalty is two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Mr. Forbes' attorney at once made a motion for a new trial. James Hamilton Lewis told his client that he would carry the case to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the defendants remain at liberty on $10,000 bail...