Word: chinee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What Ann Brought Home. Ann was sent to a neighboring town in Indiana for crepe de chine. She brought back a husband, as girls will. The trouble starts when the new bridegroom dreams fish farms when he should be thinking sawmill. However, it ends without a pang. Earl Carroll, known over the country for his daring revues, "bathtub" scandal, is producing the play. For him it is in the nature of a bitter gesture. He said, in as many words, that, since the public was so insistent upon cleanliness and purity in the theatre, he would give them a chance...
...Ministress was Mme. Alexandra Kollontay, onetime Soviet Russian Ministress at Oslo, Norwegian Capital. She appeared last week at Mexico City, clad in precisely the colors of male diplomatic attire, black and white. Instead of a "dress shirt" she wore a white crepe de chine blouse. Instead of a "dress tie" she wore a white crepe band around her black cloche hat. Instead of a "dress suit" she wore a black silk cape, and simulated the effect of diplomatic knee breeches by having her black silk dress fall barely below the knees...
...best kimono hanging in polite folds and his two hands clasped solicitously beneath an amiable squint-eyed grin. MUSA-SHIYA the SHIRTMAKER (Also kimono make & Dry good sell) obviously aimed to please. "This time," said his message, "I was importent onnounuce for all lady LADY NECKTIE CREEP DE CHINE "All color and other one fancy patten." If Musa-Shiya did not, like Edward S. ("Playboy") Jordan, U. S. automobile manufacturer,* insist upon writing his own copy, how understanding a person must his interpreter have been...
...this restraining legislation on education and religion is to curb the idealism and individualism of the people so that they may fit into the place in the governmental plan that has been cast for them. The whole process makes for a petrifaction, a stultification, and a dead chine which can only end in the machine of mankind turning to find one man with a spark of religion and individuality to act is the savior of the race...
Queen Elizabeth, gowned in salmon pink crêpe de chine, said smilingly: "You know, my son is tall. Well, the princess reaches his eyes...