Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White had the following to say in his Emporia (Kans.) Gazette: "Since the beginning of the State men like Walter Huxman have been shining lights and dependable leaders in this commonwealth. They have rarely won official distinction. In the sixties and seventies and eighties they were called 'the silk-stocking democrats,' men of education, of talent, of character, of vision." I doubt if you would call that the description of a second-string politician...
...source has made all the Opera Hats and Silk Hats for every President of the United States for the past 8 Presidents-- Roosevelt Wilson Hoover Taft Coolidge Roosevelt Harding McKinley...
...absolutely correct formal wear, the full dress with a higher waist cut is the correct thing. Tails should drop to a point exactly opposite the knee in the back. Most lapels are of dull grosgrain silk...
Independently arrived at, Cartoonist Low's bulbous "Colonel Blimp" uttered his first upper-class fatuities in the London Evening Standard in April, 1934. Cartoonist Batchelor's fat, silk-hatted "Old Deal" first appeared in the New York Daily News...
...Orleans to visit his uncle Michel and his two younger brothers, René and Achille, who were working there in the cotton house. Brother Edgar painted an excellent view of his relatives during office hours, which hung last week in Philadelphia's exhibition. Uncle Michel in his silk hat and frock coat sits in the foreground peering at a sample of cotton. Behind him brother René is sprawled in chair reading a newspaper, while customers finger samples and clerks tot up books. When the picture was painted, Louisiana had a Negro Acting Governor, P. B. Pinchback. The director...