Word: braids
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...that, a long skirt reaching to the floor. Then an overskirt over that, that reached the floor and was tucked up on the sides and the top. Long stockings, black, and high-buttoned shoes . . . Then I had a stiff high collar and white linen cuffs. My dress was all braided in the front, and the long jacket I wore, that was also braided. We bought the braid in patterns. My gloves were tan-colored, doe skin, they called them. And then, the ring...
...city of Caracas (pop.: 800,000). Two thousand guests drank champagne and Scotch, nibbled at 6,500 lbs. of meat and fowl. They were entertained by Parisian Chanteuse Patachou (who got $10,000 for a week's work). Colonel Pérez Jiménez, dressed in a braid-crusted white tunic and black trousers with a crimson stripe, himself danced the first rumba...
...laborer for the Pennsylvania Railroad. His subsequent career was such that one Italian journalist referred to him as "one of the most esteemed and respected citizens of the United States . . . [He] started life as a navvy, and ended up with the splendor of gold of a stationmaster's braid...
...Chain Gang. The man Cubans revere as their apostle of independence was no fire-eating general, ablaze with gold braid. He was a poet-a down-at-the-heels poet with an absurd Mark Twain mustache and a burning conviction that Cubans had a right to freedom. In a short, feverish life, he laid the foundation of the movement that swept the Spanish King's men out of Cuba...
...capabilities of MIGs), then on to a briefing at the 1st Marine Division's command post, six miles from the front and well within ground-shaking distance of Marine artillery and aerial rocket fire. In the afternoon, he arrived at I Corps headquarters, put on his gold braid NATO overseas cap to take a salute from the shivering troops of 15 U.N. nations. Finally that night Ike got a little time alone with his son, Major John Eisenhower of the 3rd Infantry Division, who was detached from his unit to serve as Ike's aide during the Korean...