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Whitefish & Milk. Alighting at the Palace of Westminster, the King went into his robing room in the House of Lords, put on his crown and his ermine-trimmed, purple velvet robes; the Queen hooked the broad blue ribbon of the Garter over her white crinoline dress. Entering the chamber, they were preceded by heralds and court functionaries whose stiff tabards made them look like kings and jacks in a pack of cards. In all this splendor, stubby Herbert Morrison, in his black cutaway, stood out like the ace of spades. But Commoner Morrison, present in his capacity as Lord President...
Falk and Rome are desperate. They want it back. It's a full-length female leg, delicately covered with nylon and embellished with a blue lace-and-ribbon garter at the upper extremity...
...Garter. At week's end, Sherm was waiting to fight back, just as though he didn't have a couple of other legal brawls on his hands. In the U.S. district court in New York, he was being sued for $100,000 by one Raymond Pillois of Paris, who thought that would be a reasonable fee for getting Billingsley an exclusive contract as American agent for a French perfume. In Baltimore, for a change, Sherm was suing. Once more in his career he was trying to get someone to stop using the name Stork Club...
This time it was blonde Bettye Mills's Stork Club, located on a lurid strip of honky-tonks known as The Block. Bettye not only serves drinks, she has strippers for entertainment. And for free she tosses the mob her garter every night. Such goings-on, Sherm felt, would "impair and cause severe damage" to his reputation...
...permitted lady guests to deck themselves in the stars and ribands of whatever orders they might possess, and-as if to keep his daughter from being outshone in the glitter-King George invested the royal bride in the broad blue riband and jeweled insignia of the Order of the Garter...