Word: silken
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...marquees run up in case of bad weather, receive with undiminished graciousness under canvas. Last week Tokyo flunkies rushed about the palace garden in jittery excitement while guests huddled under trees. It kept on raining and Their Majesties simply did not appear. With an estimated $200,000 worth of silken kimonos sodden and streaked, Japanese socialites slipped quietly away, but most foreign guests as they departed made audible remarks...
...million private dollars last year. Up rose Miss Perkins to talk of Labor and Society. Above her head, from behind a U. S. flag on the Theater's facade, peeped a large-lettered plaque: A GIFT OF WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST. When she was done, President Sproul slipped a silken hood over her head, pronounced her a Doctor of Laws. The crowd rose, cheered when he did the same to Herbert Hoover. Then it enveloped the stage, stranded Miss Perkins for ten minutes before President Sproul rushed her bodily to his home for luncheon...
With the football boys blossoming forth in gleaming silken trousers, and West Point arriving soon to set Back Bay's heart aflutter with the dashing uniforms, the University Band has found it necessary to don four-in-hand ties of flaming crimson...
...frequent world junkets Massachusetts' Congressman George Hoiden Tinkham flew into Moscow to check up on industrial conditions. So scraggly had grown his once long and silken beard that ignorant visitors to Russia thought him a typical Communist. His curiosity about business satisfied, Boston's champion of Red-bloodedness and Reaction boarded another plane to fly on to Siberia. No sooner had it got fairly into the air than the motor stalled and down it came a thwacking bump. Out crawled Congressman Tinkham. Resolved to trust his life to no more Soviet airmen, he gave up his Siberian trip, took...
...tore loose, but it cost her one leg, part of another. Spectators raised the odds to 20-to-1. Like a Gulliver bound with Lilliputian strands, the scorpion struggled until its forelegs were swollen and paralyzed. Finally in a burst of desperate frenzy it freed its stinger from the silken web, got within an inch of the terrified spider when City Prosecutor John K. Hull stepped forward, chloroformed both spider and scorpion...