Word: chiffons
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...Coolidge or of saying "How do you do?" like Mr. & Mrs. Hoover, President and Mrs. Roosevelt greeted familiars by their first names, caught from aides and unerringly repeated such names as "Accioly," "Hsia," "Zaldumbide," "Garreau-Dombasle." After China's Minister and Mme Sao-ke Alfred Sze (black brocaded chiffon kimono and diamond tiara), after Siam's Minister and Princess Damras (black velvet and ermine)-at the tail end of the diplomatic line-came the first representative of Russia to appear at a White House reception in 15 years: Soviet Chargé d'Affaires and Mrs. Boris...
...announced intention was to "debunk" the Scottsboro case. At the first two trials there had been noise and bustle, the clicking of typewriters, he glare of camera flashlights. Last week Judge Callahan excluded all photographers. All was quiet as a squat, hard-faced blonde in a blue chiffon dress and a peaked black hat climbed to the witness stand, chewing snuff. Victoria Price, twice-married mill-hand, onetime vagrant, told in less than ten minutes and in language so foul that newshawks could not print it, the story of her alleged rape. Then she pointed to Heywood Patterson...
...last week. Sokoloff shed his coat, pushed his hat on the back of his head and mounted a tractor. Guests who dropped in for cocktails were set to work, too. Violinist Ruth Breton, wearing white gloves, was given a sickle to manipulate. Ample Soprano Emily Roosevelt,* dressed up in chiffon, was given a hoe. Tenor Mario Chamlee climbed up on the tractor beside Conductor Sokoloff-to help him break ground for a stadium where symphony concerts will be given through July and August. The cocktail guests, summer neighbors of Conductor Sokoloff, will be soloists at the Weston Concerts this summer...
...golly," exclaimed young John, a fifth former at Groton, as Missouri joined the Roosevelt bandwagon. When the result was announced, Nominee Roosevelt, his long face crinkled up in smiles, hobbled out to the ballroom to greet the Press. Mrs. Roosevelt, pinning up the long sleeves of her green chiffon dress, went into the kitchen to cook eggs and frankfurters for "the boys...
...believe in sunshine, fresh air, spinach, applesauce, laughter, buttermilk, babies, bombazine and chiffon...