Word: woven
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monrovia, Liberia, bound homeward, Captain Lawry shipped another cook, one Codjo, blackamoor, who came over the side wearing a blanket woven of human hair. From the first, his cooking was dubious. Then Captain Lawry and Mate Mortimer felt strangely ill. They were swelling, swelling. They bloated all over to "twice natural size." Fortified with strychnine, Captain Lawry staggered forward to berate Codjo, whom he found, sick as himself, lying naked in a bunk conjuring with three little sticks, a voodoo curse on the ship...
Vita Glass and Corning Glass are true glasses. Celo-O-Glass is composed of wire-mesh screen filled with an apparently celluloidinous material. Flex-O-Glass is a thin, fairly loosely woven cloth treated with a paraffin-like substance...
...things inspite of its precursors, men who have tried before to connect history with the reality of life, and not merely with its flags and trappings, who have realized, to quote the Beards themselves, that "the heritage, politics, economics, culture and international filiations of any civilization are so closely woven by fate into one fabric that no human eye can discern the beginning of its warp or woof." For in these two volumes, on a scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results...
...Taming of the Shrew," its spring production, would be rearranged in order to make an operetta, with a full chorus of eight dancing girls and a male chorus of the same number. Song hits from most of the leading musical comedies on the stage today have been skillfully woven into this remodelling and hardly recognizable comedy of Shakespeare's, and the cast has been slightly altered in order to fit this new form of production...
...present idols, to which the pens of such widely different types of writers as Professor Babbitt, H. L. Mencken, and Sinclair Lewis have previously given form. Few critics however, have seen so penetratingly beneath the surface of the contemporary scene, as Mr. Mumford has done in this book, or woven the multifold threads of the country's history into a more harmonious pattern...