Word: artificiales
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The writing brings up a problem about sensitive women. A sensitive woman can be either a bore, an embarrassment or a blessing. Or all three. Shirley Challoner, a blessing, would never have writ ten this book. Authoress Colby is sometimes tiresome, sometimes embarrassing, yet she created Shirley Challoner and the...
For the rest of the week, Mr. Kellogg said nothing more on the subject of Bolshevism. Really, Mr. Kellogg does not want any war with Mexico- nor does President Coolidge-nor do nine-tenths of the U. S. Hence, the artificial war scare prepared to die.
"Signor Gualino, director and founder of the big Viscosa artificial silk works, which employ thousands of men and women, went recently to Mussolini and declared he must close all his mills unless he got working capital.
Lately Germany announced that it could make silk for a lady's stocking out of the lobster shells left from her supper party (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week Engineer Kurt Gerson of Berlin went further. He said he could make silk purses out of sows' ears, boars'...
Economists recalled that, before the invention and commercial success of artificial silks in the past few years, abortive efforts to transplant silk production from the Orient to the New World were periodic. Cortes introduced silkworms in Mexico. James I tried to establish them in Virginia in 1609. A law still...