Word: silk
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Money worries were flicked aside: "We'll be two little silkworms and live on mulberry leaves." Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
...most impressive of the senior Tory leaders is 51-year-old Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, sometimes known as "deadpan David." A lawyer, he "took silk" when he was 33; only one man in British legal history did it at an earlier age, and that was in 1668. Attorney General in 1945, he was deputy chief prosecutor at the N¨urnberg trials...
...glittering, full-blown beauty named Dolores Gray, whose presence, style and big, happy voice make the revue's less-than-distinctive music sound far better than it is. Paris-born Ballerina Colette Marchand reveals one of the Continent's sexiest pairs of legs, sheathed in provocative black silk stockings. But it is bald, big-nosed, wild-eyed Bert Lahr who carries the show, provides it with tone, personality, guts and laughter and nightly fills the big house (1,527 seats) to bulging capacity...
...nursery door opened and Nurse's voice said, in the - sugary tone which she used to little girl guests, "Here you are, darling, and Tommy will show you all his toys." A little brown-haired girl in a silk party frock, sticking out all round her legs like a lampshade, came in at the door, stopped, and stared at her host. Tom, a dark little boy aged five, also in a party suit, blue linen knickers and a silk shirt, stared back at the girl. Nurse had gone into the night nursery, next door, on her private affairs...
...hundreds of volumes put forth by companies such as the Peperell Textile Mills; in time they extend from the sixteenth century to the present. Most of them are well preserved for their age, but those showing signs of deterioration are covered on both sides with very fine silk...