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...present, Randall's office is packed with some 30-odd coats and jackets, 150 assorted books, rubbers, umbrellss, ladies' compacts, silk stockings, briefcases, and a lot of other things you wouldn't expect people to walk off and forget...
...stood apart, alone. He, too, wore a Chesterfield, but the striped trousers of morning dress individualized him. With easy dignity, he carried a mace--a long, metal staff topped by a medallion. Many saluted him, but he stood apart, with his mace and his tall silk hat. And a cigarette hanging out of his mouth...
...gleams like a highly polished skillet. Beveridge began by selling stereopticon viewers, joined Fuller Brush as a door-to-door salesman in 1913. He was sales vice president when he quit in 1929 in the hope of working into the ownership of some likely business. He picked the Real Silk Hosiery Mills, but after two years there, took to the brush again. He rented the first floor of an old tobacco shed in Westfield, Mass., founded Stanley Home Products, and with six associates sold $72,000 worth of polishes and brushes the first year...
...that gave such milk I'd dress her in the finest silk, Feed her on the choicest hay, And milk her 40 times...
Queen Eleanor, whose domestic difficulties resulted in the convent's foundation, still lay in her royal robes, her hand still covered by a white calfskin glove embroidered in green silk. From other tombs came exquisite brocade bonnets. The colors of the silks were as bright as though dyed yesterday. There was even a bunch of tiny withered roses, a token of personal tenderness 700 years...