Word: silk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Emotional Wave. In the afternoon the body, seated in a chair on a four-wheel cart, was drawn through the streets by Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...
...SCENE: the baroque conference room of the old State Department Building, Washington. The seats are three-quarters filled with reporters. On stage, center, is HARRY TRUMAN, in snappy dark blue suit, with a blue pocket handkerchief peeping out of his breast pocket, matching his blue silk tie. Around him, PHOTOGRAPHERS and NEWSREEL MEN cluster. They have been specially invited by the President to give the broadest possible sweep of publicity to what...
...three-room hotel suite, Dominguin held court. He lounged on the bed in a black and cream silk dressing gown, chain-smoking black Mexican cigarettes and gracefully flicking the ashes to the floor. Behind him the phone jangled incessantly. ("Tell her I'm out," he would say, "and will be back in an hour.") Around him swirled admirers, newspapermen, photographers, bullfighters and favor-seekers, helping themselves to the free Scotch and brandy, and filling the room with smoke and babble. His three personal servants bustled to unpack 15 leather bags, containing 17 suits and a tailcoat, a small treasure...
Bing and Bob, dressed in kilts, sing one number called Hoot Mon. Dorothy Lamour models a succession of silk and cloth-of-gold sarongs designed by Hollywood's Edith Head. There is also a shipwreck, a headhunters' ceremonial, and an erupting volcano. Road to Bali does not always run a smooth comedy course, but it has some diverting detours...
...prelate who has to outfit himself from scratch. Specifically, the Pope has ordered : 1) that the fantail on both purple and red cassocks be eliminated, 2) that purple robes, which are used in time of mourning and during Lent and Advent, be made of wool instead of silk (the scarlet formal dress will continue to be made of silk), 3) that the six-yard train on the cappa magna, the long ceremonial cape which cardinals wear, be shortened to three yards...