Word: silk
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...much to decorate his native city since the fall of the monarchy. Equipped with Caviedes murals is not only the Café Fuentelarreyna, but the Chicote Bar, a beer cellar known as "Zum Lustigen Walfisch." a drugstore in the Calle Sevilla, the bar of the Capitol Building, the Lyons Silk Shop, and the swank offices of International Telephone...
...Guarneri noted that these will now reduce the effectiveness of sanctions. "I might paraphrase Marie Antoinette," said he with a wry smile. "The Queen's notion was that if the people could not have bread they might have to eat cake and Italians may have to wear natural silk, of which Italy produces plenty, instead of cotton, of which we produce little or none. Having electrified many of our railways, the coal saved is now going into the bunkers of troop ships. We are pinched today. But it is a choice of evils. We must overflow elsewhere or blow...
...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...
...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...