Word: wooled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Short, thick-necked, addicted to pipes and vivid neckties. Major Seymour is the first dyed-in-wool operations man to pre side over American Airways. He served with the Army Air Corps overseas, re turned to become consulting engineer to the Chief of Army Air Service. Shortly after National Air Transport was organized in 1926, and before it began service, "Bing" Seymour joined its ranks. He remained with it until a few months ago when he resigned as vice president in charge of operations (of United Airlines, which" had absorbed NAT). To him went much credit for early airmail pioneering...
...documents were loaned to the School by H. G. Selfridge of London, who acquired them from the Italian government after they had been confiscated as state papers. They form the record of the Medici family from 1400 to 1600. (They are of significance in the history of the wool Industry and in international trade.) The manuscripts are in two divisions, the account books of "Medici and Company, Merchant Employers," letters of the members of the Medici to kings, artists and celebrities of the time...
...sure to come in contact with ideas and theories that will give him at least a tolerance of liberalism. He often becomes a liberal himself, and sometimes turns into an out-and-out revolutionary. Since the days of President Eliot, Harvard has lost its New England dyed-in-the-wool conservatism and has assumed the real function of a University--to put before its students samples of all ideas and all theories...
...late to popularity: not until The Sound and the Fury (his fifth book) was he on his way to become a literary household word. After two years at the University of Mississippi he enlisted in the Canadian Flying Corps, at the Armistice was a lieutenant. A dyed-in-the-wool Southerner but no unreconstructed rebel, Faulkner lives with a wife and two stepchildren on his own cotton plantation in Oxford, Miss, whence he makes rare, grudging expeditions to literary Manhattan. He still flies occasionally, in an old plane that belongs to a friend. Few of his Oxford neighbors know that...
...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...