Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full length portrait of a Chinese nobleman, a product of the Ming-Ching period, which, translated, means late 17th or early 18th century, is considered to have been the collector's favorite. At the opposite extreme are four tiny landscapes, their lines barely visible on the ancient, faded silk. Of even greater age is a 12th century South Indian bronze statue, the most valuable object in the exhibit. Another bronze, which is mounted on a pedestal near the entrance, symbolizes the incarnation of Buddah. Every line of his face, from his furrowed brow to the tip of his pointed chin...
...this dramatic draw. For, as last week's matches at the Ridgewood (N. J.) Country Club ended, they found themselves roundly whipped, 9-to-3, in a tournament distinguished more by the U. S. team's off-the-course uniforms (fawn slacks, brown gabardine jacket, white silk shirt, team tie) than by the quality of anyone's game. Taking possession of the trophy for the next two years, the U. S. professionals added weight to the tradition that no visiting Ryder Cup team ever wins...
...intentionally as well as unintentionally in an uneven variety of poetic fabric. Much of the common street speech of his criminals and vagrants is good stout tow-sacking. Much of the overlong excursion into the philosophy of justice, to judge by audience reaction, is tiresome shoddy. But pure chamfered silk, most observers agreed, were the tender, spontaneous love passages between Mio and Miriamne (Margo), Garth's mercurial younger sister, a curious and strangely apposite East Side Juliet...
...vestry issued its call-to a young man who is an enrolled Socialist, a vice president of Consumers' Research, an executive in the Church League for Industrial Democracy. Trinity's rector-elect was once arrested with Norman Thomas for unlawful assemblage at a Paterson, N. J. silk strike. His most notable exploit in eleven years as assistant rector of a Brooklyn church was to lose the parish its richest member, onetime President Matthew Scott Sloan of Brooklyn Edison Co. who objected to the young man holding labor demonstrations in front of his office. Rev. Lorin Bradford Young...
...ANGEL OF THE ASSASSINATION? Joseph Shearing?Smith & Haas ($2.75). The French Revolution had already passed through its stages of exaltation, flowery speeches and grandiose proposals, when in the hot summer of 1793, Charlotte de Corday sat in a dim house in Caen, embroidering on a piece of silk the question: "Shall I, shall I not?" A cool, gracious, studious maiden of 24, she was asking herself if she should assassinate Jean-Paul Marat, President of the Jacobins, diseased, crippled, doomed fanatic who called himself "the rage of the people." The mood of ecstasy that Charlotte de Corday, as a follower...