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Only 600,000 Pairs. In putting ceilings (69? to $1.65) on women's silk hose last week, OPA Chief Leon Henderson gave away a secret, started another hoarding rush. On manufacturers' and merchants' shelves only some 600,000 pairs of silk hose are left. Women had thought there were many more...
Panic's Start. Before Joyce Spector reached the cloakroom, the Cocoanut Grove was a screaming shambles. The fire quickly ate away the palm tree, raced along silk draperies, was sucked upstairs through the stairway, leaped along ceiling and wall. The silk hangings, turned to balloons of flame, fell on table and floor...
...clean his hands as we do today but used just enough water from an old basin to lubricate them. There was no anesthesia. The physiology table used for animal demonstrations was his operating table. Mott would put the scalpel in his mouth and possibly several strands of waxed silk or linen. His sponges were the ordinary reef sponges and these he would rinse in an old japanned basin, changing the water in the basin only when it became too bloody to return the sponges relatively clean. The instruments he used were taken out of a mahogany box, the old Civil...
Every room in the University is a veritable storehouse of desperately needed rubber and scrap metal. That old tin wastebasket and the miniature rubber tire surrounding the ash-tray could certainly be put to better use in a jeep or Flying Fortress. Cloth scrap, especially silk, is also needed, and those old frayed shirts and ties will help. Since representatives have been appointed in every entry to take care of the donations, no great pains have to be taken to get rid of your scrap. If every student contributes just one pound of scrap, the country will be enriched...
...another number called "That Russian Winter" which he conceived for the Army show. It deals in a rather hotcha fashion with one Adolf Hitler, whose plans were frustrated by "That Russian Winter." To top it off, the dance routines were performed by Cossacks in shiny boots and bright silk shirts--the standard, romanticized view of the Russian people. Granted that the show was corn through and through, wonderful and very enjoyable corn, Berlin should have thought of something that didn't insult the intelligence of anyone who has read even one communique from Russia...