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...course, he has used his butcher's cleaver for the pointing. No one is likely to be leaving Agassiz Theater tonight or tomorrow night as a campaigner against marriage, but he still isn't likely to be cherishing any notions about it being all orange-blossoms and pink silk quilts, either...
Troops in armored cars occupied railways, telephone exchanges and border stations. They arrested El Kuwatly in Damascus' military hospital, routed Premier Khalid el-Azm out of bed and carried him off in his blue silk pajamas. By morning most of the cabinet was locked up in Damascus' Citadel, and Syrians got their first look at their new ruler...
Spain's ex-Foreign Minister and onetime heir-apparent to his brother-in-law, Francisco Franco, rose with leisurely languor from a red velvet couch, adjusted his gray silk tie, sauntered into his studio to receive the unexpected callers. Solemn of mien, in dark blue suits and black ties, the two señors coldly declined to sit. One thrust forward a blue-bound book with the bright yellow title-Press Mission in Spain. "Have you seen this book?" he asked with menace in his tone...
...part and gave Torn the courage to explain the situation to the other girl. The engagement of Tom and Liana was announced in the Times of London on May 10, 1947. Happy Liana departed for Athens to buy her trousseau. It was quite a trousseau, including two silk dressing gowns costing ?55 and ?66 respectively. Three hundred wedding guests were invited...
...that now seems almost as remote as Charlemagne's, died in 1913, just before history presented some of his readers with the day he had in mind. "He took a long time dressing," one of his sons remembers, "and was always elegant, with a bow tie, spats, silk hat, a flower in his lapel, and always a cane...