Word: woven
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...combination living & dining room, glittering with thousands of flecks of gold-colored plastic thread woven in chairs, sofa and carpet, the huge mirror forming the far wall parted; through it, from her hidden boudoir, stepped Viola Loewy, his 28-year-old bride of less than a year, to join him at breakfast...
...they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores...
Long Cloth. Out of the inexhaustible bundle came a striped cloth 12 ft wide and 87 ft. long. Bird believes that this is the biggest cloth ever woven by pre-machine methods. He estimates that the weavers must have walked 77 miles while laying out the warp threads...
That old storyteller Somerset Maugham expounds his literary theorizing to the full at the outset of "Quartet." It seems that during his lifetime he has woven his experiences into his stories till now, looking back, he can't separate the fact from the fiction. Perhaps it was this sort of profundity that led critics to label him "superficial" at the age of sixty. But what Maugham lacks in depth he often makes up for in speed. His talents as playwright often outshone his skill with fiction for the very reason that the man could make a clever little plot move...
...Marshal's austere appearance in pictures may have deceived even sharp-eyed Tailor &Cutter. "His well-known tunic," wrote Wendell Willkie in One World, "is of finely woven material, and is apt to be a soft green or a delicate pink; his trousers a light tannish yellow or blue...