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...Salisbury, was an evening gown with a white satin bodice and floor-sweeping skirt of rainbow-hued pleats, which "brought a hush of silence over the shoppers." The hush was under standable, since the white satin of the bodice was priced at the equivalent of $34 a yard, the crepe de Chine pastels of the skirt at $27.50 (wage of average Russian: $175 a month). At an opulent lilac negligee lined with white silk and with a white ruffed collar, said Salisbury, "an old peasant in a sheepskin cap and coat ... stared as though his eyes would pop." There were...
...gushes. His favorite stance is with one hand grasping a terrified speak-easy proprietor by the shirt front while two fingers of the other hand are poised to jab out stricken eyes. Robinson, less slavish to the physical, just points his cigar and says "Nyah," fixing opponents with crepe-swathed stares. Then he sends enormous wreaths to their funerals...
...with crepe on his sleeve and no girl...
Last week, after ten days had gone by with no new rumors on the board, President Miller thought that his men had got the bug out of their systems. The Rumor Factory was draped in black crepe, loaded on a truck and hauled off Stallings Field. Said Miller: "The air is much better around here now. Morale is high and tension has dropped. It's wonderful...
...history, the Ninth had never elected a labeled Democrat to Congress. But when the votes were counted last week, Democrat Lester R. Johnson was the winner over Republican Arthur L. Padrutt, 27,929 to 21,133. The result brought out black headlines from coast to coast and some black crepe at Republican national headquarters. Many Democrats and quite a few Republicans leaped to the conclusion that the 6,796 votes that separated the winner and the loser represented a national trend. It was a long leap...