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Soon costly and significant gifts were bestowed upon the Royal Afghans. For Queen Thuraya two Angora cats of super-best breed, next an even softer, silkier present: a pile of rugs made from the pelts of famed and rare Angora goats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Home to Kabul | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

...many years. Since the most consummate ingenuity has been able to add nothing to bring the gasoline engine any nearer to perfection, body design has been more and more carefully studied, until now the glittering fashions in enamel, glass, aluminum, mahogany, lacquer, alter as perennially as the styles in silkier clothing; and the famous body-designers? Brewster, Willoughby, Fleetwood, etc.?have achieved a prestige comparable to that of the great dress-makers?Molyneux, Paquin, Poiret, Worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Steel | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

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