Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Adopted (176-to-129) a resolution by Missouri's Shannon to investigate "Government competition with private enterprise" in the form of sales of merchandise at Army posts and elsewhere; viewed as exhibits a pair of women's pink silk pyjamas purchased at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. and an array of gin, rum. corn and rye flavoring extracts bought at a Government store in Washington...
...ought to commute the death sentence. But President Sanchez Cerro is as mentally relentless as he is physically robust and tough. Congress, knowing this, has tried to wheedle him by the flattery of promoting him in military rank. President Sanchez Cerro was unmoved. Lounging at home in a $150 silk bathrobe he let Jose Melgar sit in jail...
...Blackmailers, a love interest, the police, a fabulous Magic Park for lovers, a lost suitcase with the tycoon's fortune, make a buoyant arrangement in nonsense, ending with a ceremony to celebrate the factory's wiring for entire mechanization, no humans required. A high wind is blowing, silk hats teeter, the police are closing in on the convict-tycoon, the money in the lost suitcase begins to blow into the crowd, the grandstand collapses. ... At last peace: the factory is mechanized, the ex-workers engaged in mass lounging, fishing, dancing. The two heroes go off singing for pennies...
...good for me. ... It is more important to make good pictures than good money. . . . Money they can give you; liberty they cannot." A Nous, La Liberté! was passed by the French censor after Liberty-Lover Clair had made some requested changes. Good shots: a crowd of silk hats in the factory yard running away from the camera; the parallel of the factory assembling table and the prison workshop...
...Emperor Justinian I (483-565) induced two Persian monks to steal some silk worm eggs from China. They were transported to Constantinople in hollow canes, laid the foundation for silk-growing in Europe...