Word: silkenly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silken ribbon, taut and quivering, stretched last week across the end of the Boulevard Haussmann. Blue-capped Parisian policemen held back a crowd...
...glorious past, of Turandot's 13 suitors, headless now, who had dared desire her. A square out side the Palace with steps upon steps mounting the depth of the stage, the bearded emperor high on his throne, mandarins in their gaudiest best, eight wise men with their silken scrolls, are mise en scene for Turandot, cold, disdainful, asking her riddles, and, steps below, the unknown prince, prompted by love, guessing right. Then Palace Garden on a summer night - Turandot, icy still, unwilling to abide by the terms of her own contract, awakened by a kiss. The steps...
...came off the fuselage in which he was seated. Last week F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War in charge of Aviation (TIME, July 12) saw Pilot Barksdale's plane go into a tail spin at 2,000 ft.; saw him jump, open his 'chute; saw the silken shrouds foul in the struts; saw the "pilot with a charmed life" dashed crazily into the ground...
...scalped her before his eyes. The hero-perhaps Mr. Curwood as he would like to have been-is golden-haired, steel-sinewed David Rock who, through his attachment to the humanitarian Black Hunter, is suspected of treason by his foppish, malicious French overlords and lives through to wed silken-lashed Anne St. Denis only by the slim width of a tomahawk blade. History pours forth aplenty through the tale, but not more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public can follow. All the characters have Souls, lofty or eternally damned. For each date set down there...
Henry I. A delegation of rich mandarins and erstwhile potent nobles, their silken garments rustling, their smiles unctuous, sought audience last week with Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, co-conqueror of Peking with Super-Tuchun Chang...