Word: silken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...could establish his loud charges of poll frauds. In Texas, Democratic nomination equals virtual election. Under the terms of a wager* Governess Ferguson was honor-bound to resign her executive position immediately. The lone-star state, state of the Alamo, of San Jacinto, of hard boiled sandslappers† and silken-tongued two-gun men, will now be governed by a onetime Sunday School teacher...
...Silken Shackles (Irene Rich). Behind this horrible title lurks one of the usually nauseous triangle dramas of uneven family life. Thanks to the performance of Miss Rich and the general intelligence of the story and direction, the picture may be endured, perhaps occasionally enjoyed. This wife wearied of her dentist husband and took up with a gentleman who let his hair grow long and played the violin. The couple are overtaken in Trieste and the wife concludes that her sane and comfortable spouse is, perhaps, better after...
...SPLENDID SHILLING?Idwal Jones?Doubleday, Page ($2). "Happy the man who, devoid of cares and strife, in silken or in leathern purse retains the splendid shilling." So lied the old Welsh proverb. The girl, Danzel, wore the crusted coin?rapt from the empty ribs of a warrior?until there was a green stain on her breast. She made to give it to Guy Puncheon as he left Wales to let his half-gypsy blood race free and find their fortune. But it dropped between them, which may have been the omen. Guy found it, pouched it in silk against...
...prospective fares that they are on the way to their own dinners-and wait to be bribed. After midnight they usually demand a sum based on the appearance of those who hail them. A quietly dressed Parisian and his wife may get home for almost the day tariff. A silken-caped, silk-hatted Argentine millionaire with his hatless ermine-caped mistress may be held up until he almost buys...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY- Ina Claire, Roland Young and A. E. Matthews in a silken story of thievery in the British peerage...