Word: wool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wool that does not shrink...
With beer as the original source of its fortune, the House of Bemberg acquired a near-monopoly of brewing in Argentina, then branched into public utilities, cotton, dairy products, wool and yerba mate (Paraguay tea). Sum total of the family fortune was anyone's guess, for the Bembergs kept their mouths shut. Hostile estimates ran as high as a billion dollars...
...Rome's monstrous Emperor Caligula (A.D. 12-41), whose favorite order was: "Kill him so that he knows he dies." Caligula built two incredibly magnificent pleasure galleys, in which to float imperially on charming Lake Nemi. The galleys were constructed of oak, pine and fir, covered with wool, sheathed in lead, studded with the bronze heads of wolves and lions, marbles, mosaics, porphyry and precious metals. According to one legend they sank to the bottom of Lake Nemi with all hands aboard except Caligula, who was something of a practical joker. According to another legend they were stripped, allowed...
...being a "rolypoly French wife": rolypoly I certainly am, due in part to the steady diet of oysters and champagne. This I cannot refute. But I definitely am not a Frenchwoman. I am a dyed-in-the-wool (and I do not mean Mr. Monteux's wool) Maineiac, and proud indeed of my old New England ancestry...
Midwife Delfino wrapped the babies in cotton wool, bedded them down with hot-water bottles. There was no miraculous Dr. Dafoe, hardly any trouble. Papa Diligenti hurried back from Córdoba. After five days he took the mother and three of the babies home, the others two days later. Remembering the Dionne circus with horror, he swore the midwife to secrecy. Says Midwife Delfino: "I am a mother myself, and I swore on the lives of my children...