Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while the committee was holding an executive session in another room, a female midget, Lya Graf of Ringling Bros. Circus, wriggled through the waiting crowd and headed straight for Banker Morgan. Leading the 21-in., 22-lb. creature in her gaudy blue satin dress was Charles Leef, assistant to famed Press-agent Dexter Fellows. "Gangway!" Leef cried. "The smallest lady in the world wants to meet the richest man in the world." Before Banker Morgan knew it, Leef had plunked Lya Graf down on his lap. Newscameras went into frantic action. The spectators roared with amazed amusement. Banker Morgan grinned...
...University Hospital in Tokyo. According to the Japanese law his body was washed and prepared for cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped the mustaches away. They were bound with white silk, laid on a satin cushion in a separate casket and buried with all honor in a separate burial mound...
...materials, cotton is more popular than ever, especially for year-round evening gowns. French dressmakers are making elaborate efforts to push a new lacquered satin, even shinier than the cire satin of last year, even more trying for all but the most statuesque figures...
...from buying on credit everything she fancies, blackmailing the maid out of back wages, formulating grandiose schemes for selling "her poor little home" to an unborn literary club. With a pleasantly insane gleam in her eyes, she falls out with everyone, instantly makes up does housework in a white satin ball gown, frequently retires to her bedroom and communicates with her children on postal cards carried by the maid. An amiable rich Jew. whom she thinks "so Oriental." finally appears to solve her difficulties...
...nice person could. But people who heard the performance over the radio were fortunate not to see the plush picture-book queen that Contralto Karin Branzell made out of Klytemnestra, supposedly half-crazed by the sense of her guilt. Soprano Goeta Ljungberg looked foolish posturing in an elaborate white satin dress. Tenor Rudolf Laubenthal seemed more like a saintly Lohengrin than a man who had committed murder to get a throne. Baritone Friedrich Schorr was a dignified but middle-aged Orestes...