Word: doeskin
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...King would have liked his ministers and gentlemen to wear their state uniforms of red & gold with white doeskin breeches, white silk stockings and buckled shoes. But the uniforms cost $500 each, and Labor is in power. The invitations read: "Dinner jacket or day dress...
...galloping excitement of the real thing. The kiddies won't find it as much fun as their elders will. The picture's chief excitement is Yvonne (Salome, Where She Danced) de Carlo, a vigorous, shapely actress who looks equally luscious in sequins or a fringed doeskin skirt. Minor causes of excitement: horse-chases, barroom brawls, shootings, knife-throwing and a baby teetering over a precipice at the end of a fallen tree. Frontier Gal oversteps the bounds of conventional horse-opera morality by including a kissing marathon and several rough-&-tumble bedroom scenes...
...stopped the feet-washing entirely, refused even to watch the almsgiving. British repugnance for the "awful Georges" was notably obliterated by the late George V, who four years ago revived the King's personal role in the old rite, watched in Westminster Abbey while his Almoner distributed doeskin purses of scarlet & white thongs to 67 hand-picked old men of the Parish of Westminster, 67 old women, the King being 67 years old. Since a set of specially minted Maundy Pence is a coin collectors' item worth $1, the old folks get a little more than face value...
...gets fun out of digging in the fruit and vegetable gardens when he gets back to his father's farm. Those who popped their heads into the Assistant Secretary's office just before he left for his Senatorial inquisition, found Dr. Tugwell having his white doeskin shoes cleaned and whitened. His necktie, shirt and socks always conform to a careful color scheme, and in passing a mirror he is apt, perhaps unconsciously, to give himself a glance. At 42 he is a handsome figure of a man. Besides being a connoisseur of dress, he is also an amateur...
Blond, barrel-chested Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Premier of Prussia, Prussian Minister of the Interior, President of the Reichstag, Reich Minister of Aviation, has a multitude of gaudy self-designed uniforms differing from those of other Nazis. Last week, to set off the doeskin military cloak that has attracted much attention of late, he acquired a new pair of trousers, blazing with the broad scarlet stripes of an honorary General of Infantry...