Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pisculli's medical kit were a hypodermic needle, a stethoscope, smelling salts, lamb's wool and almond oil to stuff in their ears to prevent deafness. In the larder were three roast chickens, a dozen raw eggs, tomatoes, oranges, chocolate bars, tea tablets, honey to sweeten the tea, chewing gum and special aviation biscuits invented by Dr. Pisculli. If the plane were forced down at sea, the party had a three-pound still to distill salt water...
...famous feather balls," said Mr. Campbell. "They were in vogue until 1858 when they were replaced by the hard rubber 'gutties.' They have a cover of horse leather soaked in oil and are filled with gull feathers. It took a top hat full of feathers to stuff one ball. They are a wee bit hard." Pride of the collection are a group of early 19th Century clubs from the bench of the late great Hugh Philip of Scotland. "Just as fine a piece of skill this chap Philip had with golf clubs as Stradivari with his violins. There...
...smashed up a $70,000 plane. I'm going to put you in your place. I'm going to get your job. You're going to learn that you can't say things like this about me. I won't have it. I shot John McGinnis for stuff like this. . . . I'm going to call up Paul Patterson [president of the Sun] and tell him about this campaign against...
...Piazza doesn't think we're made of the right stuff over here he better put on his black shirt, pick up his guitar and go back to Venice and paddle his gondola...
...skeptically. Sure enough, word soon went around the silk industry's lunch tables that something had been found. It was not exactly something new; it was merely old enough to seem new. It was Rough Crepe, which takes more silk fibre per yard than any other silk dress stuff. Crepe de Chine has not been "in" for years, rough crepes have never been popular. Few wardrobes would contain old crepe de Chine dresses, let alone rough crepes, that could be made over. Silk men know that there are 10,000,000 U. S. women who have never...