Word: silken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles attempted to express its appreciation of Patron Clark. Important citizens, including Mayor John Clinton Porter, gathered in Pershing Square across from the Auditorium. Laudatory speeches were made. Mrs. Leafie Sloan-Orcutt, an imposing grey-haired dowager representing the Los Angeles Philharmonic Woman's Committee, pulled a silken cord, revealed a bronze Beethoven in long frockcoat, baggy trousers, hands clasped characteristically behind his back. Philharmonic musicians, who gave the statue in Patron Clark's honor, sealed their gift with a stirring performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony...
...Wrapped in a silken shroud the body was taken in an ambulance1 to the Elysee where, on the second floor, embalmers went to work...
...Stimson, who had a mild case of laryngitis before he left Washington, presently found it so bad in Geneva that he had to sit at home in his ornate, rented Louis XVI villa ("The Stimson Musée") wearing heavy woolen socks, a bathrobe and silken muffler. Meanwhile, Scot MacDonald's doctors were pestering him with doctorish demands that he "take three full hours of complete relaxation and visual rest every day." In this atmosphere of inaction, invalidism and frustration correspondents set down...
...head. Ma's head is closely shaven, glistens. As small Marshal Chang used to be small General Ma is the terror of a General Staff composed exclusively of tall, strapping, exceedingly respectful Chinese officers. They bent their large bodies over staff maps last week while General Ma in silken house slippers but wearing a fur-collared military great coat affably received Correspondent...
Wild duck always return to the scene of their birth-so good Japanese believe. Last week the 8th Hirosaki Division was assembling under orders from the Emperor for duty in Manchuria. In hundreds of well-to-do Japanese homes parents hung long silken kakemono (scroll paintings) of wild ducks in the tokonoma* as tokens to bring their sons safely home again. Those who could afford it hung duck paintings by the man whom conservative Japanese regard as the greatest living wild fowl painter: Tetsuzan Hori, head of the Tokyo and Kyoto Fine Art Schools, one of the last exponents...