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...careening" around the bottom, not controlling it. Presumed at first to be gags, items like Rudi Gernreich's no-bra bra and Warner's body stockings instead have proved pacesetters for a rash of stretchable flesh-colored garments that look like a second skin, feel far silkier than the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: The Facts of the Matter | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...proves that he knows the Jimmy Magnalls of England, at least, down to their last vulgarity and their final weakness. He also creates a picture of lower-class Londoners that jumps and twitches with life. Author Tilsley is no delicate craftsman; England is vastly overstocked with novelists who write silkier books. But compared to Tilsley, most of them seem pale fellows indeed. He has, as an English critic has said, "that uncommon thing, the Common Touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cad on the Make | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

...investigated and broke him. A wounded War veteran with a silver tube in his stomach, the ousted Permanent Secretary of the Air Ministry was brilliant, driving, egotistical, efficient and a master of every technique in Government aviation except watching his tongue and saying the regulation thing where other and silkier Civil Servants were concerned. As for Sir Eric Geddes, airmen assumed that he was vexed because he had not got a peerage and still more vexed because the events of last week will make it hard for King Edward to give him one soon. To Sir Christopher's defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Incorrupt Indiscretion | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...produce more alluring makeup for Soviet faces, and up to the time of his present debauch under the Moscow streets, Josef Stalin has shown the road to oblivion. It is highly possible that New Yorkers and Bostonians, seduced by the luxurious existence of their Russian cousins, will soon demand silkier face-powder, more tantalizing lipstick, or even a marble subway with messics! The world must unite to save capitalism from this degrading Communist menace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAP OF LUXURY | 4/25/1935 | See Source »

...Georges Clemenceau, whom Charles Seymour greatly admires, is a tiger, the Professor may be compared without disparagement to some less brusque and silkier member of the same cat tribe. His silky discretion, masking the claws of a tiger-keen mind, probably attracted the especially feline Colonel House. A final seal was set upon their friendship when Professor Seymour was asked to edit the confidential papers of the discreetest statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Historical Data | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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