Word: tablecloths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pretend he was husband and father to inherit wealthy grandfather's gold. Nearly everyone agreed that Miss Lillie's surroundings are superfluous. Yet when she is in view contentment spreads ; especially when she upsets the dinner service and makes her exit wrapped nobly in the tablecloth...
...little boy jumped with a para- chute made from a tablecloth, felt the parachute give way above him, felt the world come up beneath him, rolled over uninjured. He had landed on a pile of hay. The boy was James De Witt Hill. About 35 years later he jumped from Old Orchard, Me., in an airplane made of wood and wires and steel; felt the airplane give way around him; felt the world coming up beneath him; splashed down into the ocean, disappeared...
...Greeks wove shrouds of asbestos fibre in which to cremate their dead. Thus the human ashes were kept from mixing with the wood ashes of the pyre. The Greeks also used asbestos cloth for handkerchiefs, and Charlemagne is said to have had an asbestos tablecloth which he threw into the fire to cleanse...
...Asbestos, "the incombustible" (translated from the Greek word for "unquenchable") is a fibrous mineral substance known technically as chrysotile. Its property of resistance to heat made it a curiosity long ago. Charlemagne was said to have had a tablecloth of it; Eskimos used it for lamp-wicks. Mined from veins in the earth, white or gray horn-blende-asbestos may have fibres five or six feet long, but brittle. Serpentine-asbestos has shorter fibres, yellow or greenish, of great tensile strength and elasticity. Canada (near Quebec) is a great source. The rock is quarried, cobbed by hand, dried, crushed, rolled...