Word: nightdress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palace the wedding presents were being laid out and catalogued. Among them were a set of Peking carpets from British expatriates in China, a dressing case fitted in tortoise shell from the city of Paris, twelve wedding cakes from Imperial outposts, some rubies from Burma and a silk nightdress from one Mrs. Clementine Hager...
Before he acted, Khoury's mind began to wander. When one close friend visited the President's house to inquire after his health, Khoury meandered into the room in his nightdress, asked "And who is this?" Once, when he was being taken to his car for a visit to the doctor, he refused to enter, saying that he must take his eggplants with...
Rifle butts hammered a midnight tattoo on hundreds of doors. Into the cold, dark streets poured nearly a thousand Jews, many of them in thin nightdress. For more than an hour they shivered in the crisp air while soldiers ransacked their homes, threatened with clubbed rifles any who protested. Ten foreign correspondents were whisked from the scene to the headquarters of a ruddy-faced, blond-mustached lieutenant colonel, who told them their presence was "embarrassing" to his men. The colonel called the Jews "'a despicable race," said (according to one report): "You know our boys sometimes use the butts...
...Smith with a 50% solution of silver nitrate instead of the routine 1%. Three doctors who examined the child's scarred eyes said that there was no hope for his sight. But the hospital's Superior pinned a relic of Mother Cabrini to the baby's nightdress and called the sisters to the chapel to pray all night. Next morning the doctors admitted that a miracle had occurred-the scars were miraculously gone...
...defendants, long since bored with jeering and demonstrating in court, took court-approved vacations to engage in more exciting business. As the trial dragged on, Mrs. Lois de Lafayette Washburn-who opened the proceedings with a Nazi salute and once appeared in court in a pale blue satin nightdress-was teaching a night class in stenography. Lawrence ("The Brain") Dennis, top intellectual of U.S. fascism, spent his mornings browsing sedately in the Library of Congress. Mrs. Elizabeth (The Red Network) Dilling was touring the Midwest, singing anti-Semitic and anti-rationing songs to America-First rallies...