Word: silken
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...Silken it seems at a distance, yet When it is drawn up over the knees...
...Concerns no priest. A gaping silken dragon...
Near the southern coast is the port city of Saigon, with its teeming, clamorous, shop-filled alleyways, its broad, treelined, Frenchified boulevards overflowing with beautiful fragile girls, like exotic moths in their flowing skirts split at the waist over trousers of silken gauze. Saigon's wealthy exporters deal in rice, and in the rubber, tea, cinnamon and copra that pour onto the docks from plantations in the nearby countryside...
...fellow member of London's Bucks Club, who granted him a rare two-hour interview. In a revealing passage the author says that the Prime Minister talked "about the glow and throb of the England that was, the gallantry and peculiar innocent ardor, valor, of those lost, silken quivering days, and how a whole generation was cut off, sacrificed, exterminated...
Thus, what might otherwise have been a lightheaded comedy of manners has undertones of incest and overtones of Andy Hardy. Still, the Bay Area scenery is silken, the sets and costumes effulgent; and at long last, a Hollywood production designer has learned something about the true-life tastes of the tasteful rich. Everybody is beautiful, worldly and fairly damned-everybody, that is, except Actress Reynolds, who, after ten years in pictures and a highly publicized scandal-divorce, is still playing the head pompom girl of Beverly Hills High...