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Louis Kiss, a Hungarian silk painter by trade, but a bootlegger on the side, recalled getting lost in The Bronx on March 1, 1932, wandering into the Fredericksen restaurant, seeing Hauptmann with a dog. A big, ragged man named Luther Harding swore he saw two men in a car with a ladder near the Lindbergh home on the afternoon of March 1, that neither was Hauptmann. He had turned his information over to the police next day, he said. When asked to pick out the officer he had talked to, Harding picked the wrong one. It was then revealed that...
...Silk hats shone as they were handed in at the cloak room. Shirt studs twinkled on the spotless expanse of many a broad political bosom. Legislators' ladies beamed right and left under their freshly marcelled hair. Round & round couples cumbrously revolved to music. Many a white-gloved hand was wrung enthusiastically. And the most smiles, the most handshakes, the most congratulations were reserved for one man. It was a fine thing to be a governor and attend your own inaugural ball -ten years...
Editor Koltsov notwithstanding, most Russian women, except frumpy Red careerists, have remained coquettes, have scrambled for all the silk stockings, rouge and face powder they could afford...
...Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. And a fourth was handsome young Nelson Rockefeller...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...