Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When a U. S. woman buys silk stockings, she frequently purchases some tin along with the silk. How much tin she is buying she cannot know, for there is no standard way of testing silk. But for her protection and the protection of the manufacturer of her stockings, the American Standard Association is considering tin-silk test standardization...
...Case. A Jew, one Leon Beron. was found murdered and robbed on Clapham Common. The letter S was roughly carved on his cheeks. A black-and-red silk handkerchief, a paper bag from Whitechapel, some stab marks evidently made by a tall, strong, left-handed man were the clews. Sleuth Wrensley tracked and arrested Notorious Murderer "Steinie" Morrison...
...even more attention than the blazing massive diamonds on Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...Passfield of Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming a peer. It made him feel even more uncomfortable than the silk knee-breeches he used to have to wear when, as President of the Board of Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck...
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's poet-soldier, now 65 and bald even to the eyebrows, had his appendix removed last week. The operation required 45 minutes. Poet-Soldier d'Annunzio took only local anesthetic, lay with a silk handkerchief over his face, talked, laughed, devised and recited verses. Later his personal physician, Dr. Alessandro Duse, found his recuperation normal...