Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Sears, Roebuck & Co. bought a seat on the New York Commodity Exchange. The No. 1 U. S. mail order house had no intention of speculating in rubber, silk, copper, hides, tin, lead, zinc, gasoline or crude oil. Indeed, the prime reason for buying the seat was to make it easier not to speculate in such commodities. According to Sears's Robert E. Wood, the seat was acquired to facilitate hedging operations...
...cane and gloves of late. That was, however, all right. I could manage to steer clear of her on the twenty-ninth by taking Alice to the movies. But now Alice has started it. Last night she got out the pink frock. She's bought herself a pair of silk stockings and the daintiest little...well, she's got the gleam in her eye too, and the Dormouse has been ribbing her about her first 'opportunity...
...tips: 1) Word had leaked out that the Supreme Court police had been instructed to get luncheon in advance since the session would not be brief. 2) Seated in the court room crowd was Mrs. Charles Evans Hughes. The red velvet curtains behind the austere columns parted, and the silk-robed Justices rustled to their seats. Breathless was the crowd as Chief Justice Hughes began to read. After the first sentence, the crowd sighed. Even the deepest-dyed Liberal hardly gave a hoot that day about Brown et al. v. State of Mississippi-three Negroes convicted of murder, whose statements...
...spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes often to Peiping, finding that the most comfortable place in which to haggle and compromise with the Japanese. One of the last Orientals to wear the old-fashioned cue, the Prince is of little more significance than a stuffed silk robe. Inner Mongolia is at the mercy of all its neighbors. Battle of the Temple. Outer Mongolia has been a Soviet Republic for twelve years and the only...
...pridefull) credited a major share of the victory to the patience and acumen of its own lawyer, 38-year-old Eberhard P. Deutsch. Seldom is a newspaper's lawyer a hero in its editorial rooms. Even more seldom does a local barrister achieve note among the platoon of silk-hatted, wing-collared striped-trousered counsel which is attracted to an important constitutional case. Lawyer Deutsch, son of a Cincinnati pedagog, got a job in the circulation department of the Item-Tribune, went to Tulane University's law school at night, was admitted...