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...zoology at Cornell. He was a member of the advisory council of the Simplified Spelling Board, Vice President of the Non-Smokers Protective League, etc., etc. He wrote the only article that ever appeared in the Atlantic Monthly with illustration-the story of how he reeled 150 yards of silk from a spider in South Carolina and later wove the silk into a ribbon...
...spoke in modulated Spanish vocables, which his interpreter translated into the harsh foreign tongue. Suddenly he seemed to wax eloquent. The reporters sensed that something dramatic was coming. He waved his manicured finger tips at his silk shirt, his gold wristwatch, his well tailored suit...
...other. Hired assassins do the actual campaigning?tong gunmen who have originated many of the devices in favor with detective story writers. Their knives flicker in bad doorways. Their shapes are seen outlined against a gibbous moon, while they scurry over city roofs at night, or swing down a silk rope-ladder to their victim's window. They are carried up hotel elevators in packing cases; they train cobras to crawl through the speaking-tubes of limousines and bite their enemies on the lip; but the type of crime which entertains them most is the far simpler business of entering...
...glazed parquetry. The music stopped, the 25 four-footed creatures split apart, after the fashion of multiplying atoms, into 50 two-footed creatures. They were dancing masters of the U. S. gathered for their annual convention. Professor Philip N. Nutt, of Vineland, N. J., (in velvet plus-fours and silk stockings) waved his hand. The music began again...
With the laborer's silk shirts and automobiles, and the stenographers' fur coats and silk stockings, business men as well as moralists have been duly impressed in recent years. Unlike most moralists, however, business men have been pleased at these signs of the time, taking them as indications of a constantly rising standard of living and an expanding domestic market for merchandise...