Word: satin
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Like a breastpin torn from a satin gown, the great control cabin was ripped from the body of the ship. One man, Lieut. Anderson, grabbed a girder in mid air, swung himself clear of the falling bridge. Thirteen men were left?13 men in a polished cage slipped through the air. Thirteen mangled bodies in mangled metal lay in a small farm at Ava, Ohio...
...said a headline in The New York Times one morning last week. Readers who cast a breakfast-table glance at this announcement were suddenly possessed of a curious emotion. Their eyes raced down the column. "The bride," they read, "wore a gown of white satin trimmed with old rose point lace and cut with a court train. Her veil of tulle was held with orange blossoms and she carried a shower bouquet of white orchids and lilies of the valley." An amazing picture rose in the minds of the Tory breakfasters-that of a fashionable church, wall-eyed ushers, pretty...
...Before the Reichstag went Generalfeldmarschall Paul von Hindenburg, President-elect of Germany, dressed in frock coat, black satin tie, patent leather shoes-a civilian, but one who looked a soldier from toes to hair. His entrance was greeted by shouts from the Communists, but the old soldier seemed not to be aware of their existence. He then subscribed to the oath of office...
particularly prominent motion-picture actresses, Barbara La Marr probably least deserves her distinction. Possibly she did once; a good many feet of film have gone through the camera since then. Here she is a siren of European capitals who marches about in white satin with a tall wand. Men kill themselves. She tries to kill herself. The maid shifted the poison, making it a "happy" ending...
...Supreme Court filed in, all wearing black satin skull caps, except Justice McReynolds, whose bald pate, unprotected, bore the chilly breeze. Sixteen years before, at that time and place, a heavy blizzard was blowing; slush was ankle deep. On that occasion, Chief Justice Taft, now about to administer the oath of Office to the President, had taken that same oath himself, but in the Senate Chamber. The Cabinet, including Mr. Hughes, retired, appeared in their silk hats. The new Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Jardine, was with them; in the fortunes of the day, a dent had been stove...