Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Herman Niels Bundesen. Born in Berlin in 1882, Herman Bundesen was growing up to be a Chicago street Arab when, as the story goes, a kindly Reformed Episcopal bishop, whose silk topper young Herman had smashed with a snowball, took him to Sunday school, reformed him. While Herman's two closest boyhood chums applied themselves to prodigal careers which subsequently landed them in jail for life for murder, Herman worked his way through Northwestern University Medical School, winding up on the Chicago Board of Health. As the Board's publicity-loving chief during the regimes of Mayors William...
...over her shoulders (see cut). Shrewdly Artist Ganso has repeated the tawny color of her skin in the tan walls, the rich brown of the floor. Other pictures that stopped gallerygoers: two young women lying side by side on a lake shore, one nude, the other dressed only in silk stockings & pumps; and the back view of a plump female sprawled on a divan. A Guggenheim Fellowship and many exhibition prizes have come to Artist Ganso, but watchful Dealer Weyhe is careful not to overprice his work. Ganso's most seductive nudes sell for $150 to $500 apiece...
...hour before the broadcast some 100 patriotic and prosperous members of the National Americanization League, led by a be-spatted onetime alderman from Manhattan's "silk stocking" district and a burly onetime major general in the Irish Army, appeared before the Columbia Broadcasting building, marched up & down the sidewalk with small U. S. flags and placards lettered SMASH COMMUNISM and BROWDER IS BORING FROM WITHIN...
...brilliant record in scholarship and a formidable amount of practical experience. The task before him as adviser to the King of Kings will entail tenuous manipulation of high stakes, and if American war correspondents are right considerable fretting over climate. For Ethiopia nights, Dr. Spencer has purchased a silk hat. Should he be called on, Dr. Spencer could also play the cell in the cool of the evening, since he was an accomplished cellist at Grinnell, as well as an orator and vocalist...
Blum's family were rich silk merchants. In a youthful volume, Du Mariage, he urged the Government to recognize that "man is polygamous" and adapt French law more fully to this circumstance. After penning sentimental poems, then literary and artistic criticism, and becoming some-what preciously overeducated, Léon Blum saw these things were getting him nowhere, became a lawyer and began regularly attending Europe's annual conferences of the Second (Socialist) International. Among seedy and impoverished Socialist delegates the brilliant and wealthy young French Jew began to group around himself in something like intellectual hero-worship...