Word: muslin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's Marshall Field advertised Swiss muslin, organdy and bobbinet curtains, delicately hand embroidered, for prices up to $650 a pair...
...Duchess Dowager of Devonshire, assisted by the Lord Great Chamberlain, unfastened the silk ribbons that held the Queen's train, and slipped over Her Majesty's arms a white muslin smock. Thus, with jewels hidden, Elizabeth crossed the chancel to her seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk...
...would never open mail; instead, someone read her letters to her over a telephone so she would have no personal contact with either writer or reader. Stores had to deliver furniture to any of her rooms wrapped in muslin and layers of brown paper. She once spent $60,000 redecorating an apartment in Philadelphia's Barclay Hotel, but refused to move in after she discovered that one of the workmen had been suffering with a pimple...
...speeches. Armed national police, on the watch for assassins, faced alternately towards and away from the crowd, while plainclothesmen peeped out from behind the pillars of the Capitol building. Illness kept President Syngman Rhee confined to his house. But over the speaker's platform a huge muslin banner proclaimed his defiant message...
...Best Muslin. Over the years, the colonel and his cousin have scoured the world for bird lice, visiting Syria, Africa, India, Arctic Russia, Estonia, Afghanistan, Arabia and Arizona. As soon as pack horses or native bearers arrive with the expedition at the hunting grounds, the colonel strolls out with his shotgun. As each bird bites the dust, he wraps it carefully in many folds of "the best butter muslin." When the bird's body begins to cool, the lice desert it for the muslin. Then the colonel and Theresa unwrap the muslin and shelter the displaced lice in labeled...