Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carefully Hangman Hanna adjusted the arm straps, tightened around Killer Barrett's neck the stout $65 rope which he had used in 18 other hangings. Over Barrett's head he slipped a black satin hood, the handiwork of his sister-in-law. Then he walked calmly down the steps, confident that his 69th job would be without flaw. A deputy sheriff sprang the trap. Ten minutes later George W. Barrett was dead. At daybreak he was buried in Indianapolis' Holy Cross Cemetery...
Looking back on her 49 feckless years, Evalyn sometimes feels surprised that she is still alive. She has managed to winnow a little wisdom from the chaff, hopes her children will profit from her experience. She does not regret paying $4,000 for her pink satin sheets because, "as any woman knows, forgetful, restful sleep will take out wrinkles." She is still defiant about having been tricked by the notorious Gaston B. Means into paying him $100,000 for the return of the kidnapped Lindbergh baby. And she has told her children: "If you start paying blackmail you will never...
...piece negro band played for the fall dance, and his hot syncopation was marred only by the fact that he failed to appear in his customary white tails. He has promised, however, that he will take his second bow on the Kirkland band platform resplendent in white satin...
Play, Genius, Play! (by Judith Kandel; Lew Cantor, producer) is another Sin & Temperament drama. A violinist who tires of fiddling, seeks surcease in the apartment of one of his brother's friends. The friend happens to be a lady in satin pajamas named Didi, and she gives him surcease aplenty...
...roughhousing, all carefree yelling, kept them at practice as much as seven hours a day. When they were ready for concerts Director Lippert bought them bright snappy costumes: for sacred songs, red silk cassocks, white silk cottas, ruching for their necks; for secular songs, long blue serge trousers, white satin blouses, red pleated sashes. They arrived in Manhattan last week with a spiritual adviser, two tutors, a wardrobe mistress and two trained nurses who see that they change their underwear each day, feed them cod-liver oil, spray their throats, take all their temperatures at night and submit the charts...