Word: silk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Maria Montessori seems happy enough to be away from the rest of the world and its politics ("that harlequin mixture of rags and silk") and wars ("If men can respect cows during famine, as in India, men can stop killing each other"). She is not even thinking of retiring. Said she: "Work is necessary. It can be nothing less than a passion. A person is happy in accomplishment...
Star sapphires, which have a brilliant, six-pointed star, are more difficult to imitate. Their "asterism" comes from minute particles of some foreign matter (some authorities claim that it is empty space) arranged symmetrically throughout the crystal structure. These form a slight cloudiness (jewelers call it "silk") which reflects light in the shape of a star...
...applauded. A silk-stocking audience in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel broke into a noontime speech 25 times in 35 minutes. He was also cheered, though more perfunctorily, by Republicans in San Francisco and Reno, and greeted heartily by party members in Las Vegas and at Hoover and Shasta dams...
Though he was a winning Republican, he was anathema to most G.O.P. leaders. He infuriated party regulars by his association with socialists and other radicals-one of his proteges was Communist-line Vito Marcantonio-and by his refusal to accept Republican platforms. The party's silk-stocking element was frankly appalled by him-a noisy little man whose feet dangled when he sat on a chair, who needed a shave, who walked in picket lines and smelled of garlic. When he was finally beaten for Congress in 1932, the party sighed with relief. It seemed that his career...
...Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy daily at 1 o'clock and transmit it to New York, while Mr. Lippmann, in red silk Chinese trousers and a grey-&-black silk shirt, sat at his antique desk and wrote. By this week, enough of his columns had appeared to indicate the trend of his thoughts...