Word: threading
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...Picasso gave up painting as a bad job. For two years he loafed, and did a little writing in a style that seemed to derive from Gertrude Stein and an old grad's 25th-anniversary recollections of Marcus Tullius Cicero. Sample: "Nothing to do but to watch the thread that destiny works which taints the theft of the glass from the mind that shakes the hour coiled up in remembrances toasted on grills of blue...
...members of this class may make a partial adjustment and become involved in marriage, but this solves the problem only outwardly ... A closer inspection will demonstrate the same pattern of flight and combat interwoven with the marriage thread. There may be an excessive . . . interest in card playing and club and sport pursuits and a proportionate neglect of the husband. This type will take great interest in traveling alone, in purchasing expensive clothes, perhaps even in the aggressive pursuit of a career. Pregnancy is avoided as a nuisance or even a calamity...
...pray for the prolongation of these subscriptions, hoping that in the nearer or farther future we shall be able to pay for them. We can't imagine our life without this 'golden thread' which for us is the reading of TIME and LIFE...
...With a Silk Thread, Elsa (PickUp Girl) Shelley told of a throaty, sexy exactress married to a jealous surgeon and infatuated with a self-seeking young actor. Never did words seem more feeble or woes more protracted. Yet the play performed a miracle of sorts: after starting at rock bottom, it went steadily downhill...
This was only the beginning. He eliminated tiny imperfections with hand engraving tools. He mixed his own inks. He made his own paper by stewing up cigarette paper with bits of colored thread, stirring the mess with an egg beater, sizing it (to keep the product from crumbling when it dried) and finally rolling it out by hand. He printed his money with a press made from an old clothes wringer...