Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Oct. 26 issue you published an article on "Lost Laughter" dealing with cartoons, and pointed out that Cartoonist Batchelor had been the outstanding cartoonist from the angle of novelty, largely because of the character he had created-a politician with a silk hat but wearing little else...
...that they can hope for is an occasional pat. The immobility of a good dressage rider is actually an illusion. He achieves his effects by shifts of weight so slight as to be imperceptible, pressure on the bit so gentle that Vast, Si Murray or Olympic can perform with silk threads instead of reins. The secret of dressage lies as much in the delicacy of the rider's hands as of the horse's mouth. Major Tuttle is an expert violinist. Olympic is now valued at $15,000. He cost $1. Like Vast and Si Murray, who cost...
...they came to be stock figures in British intellectual life, being put upon lecture platforms especially to pummel each other "like two knockabout comedians." Their social relations were less permanent. When Maurice Baring gave a great birthday party (at which eggs were boiled in Sir Herbert Tree's silk hat and Chesterton fenced with real swords with a gentleman "fortunately" more intoxicated than himself), Shaw left the drunken company "like a 17th Century Puritan leaving a tavern full of Cavaliers." Among other veterans' tales of literary warfare, Chesterton records the story of the great Critic Henley...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...
...first published version of the Journal deals with the food the friends were served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that it was odd to hear Dr. Johnson discoursing in this fashion. But the manuscript shows...