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From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...
IRREPLACEABLE Silk Most Rubber Goods...
Store-window displays are often attractive, but the wares are usually not for sale. The great Wertheim department store has become, in range of merchandise, a 10? store. Long queues form whenever fruit, tobacco, candy or silk stockings are offered for sale...
Ugly machine-gun nests have been installed on the roofs of scores of Berlin buildings, including Michels silk shop, Meyer's wine store, the German Labor Front headquarters, the Karstadt warehouse. Perhaps some of this armament was intended for defense against low-flying aircraft, but Berlin had bristled with all-purpose anti-aircraft guns for more than a year...
...close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes theatrical, has blue spiders embroidered on his cream-colored silk shirts, his pajamas and his underwear...