Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile Japan's militarism was mak ing trouble for Japan's business. The very day that troops were marching on Harbin and naval guns were bombarding the Whangpoo forts, Japanese bonds dropped to new lows in New York, prices crashed on the Tokyo stock exchange. The Yoko hama silk exchange, centre of one of Japan's most important industries, was forced to close. The Osaka sugar mills shut down last week, strangled by the Chinese boycott. By advice of old Prince Saionji no figures on the cost of Japan's military operations were allowed to ap pear...
...parents of the girl he wished to marry, who made himself rich by putting them in a comic strip. Earthy, rude nouveaux riches, Jiggs & Maggie became famed in song, story, burlesque. Probably on this account is the story apocryphal. No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie. Nevertheless, U. S. masses have for many years followed their somewhat stylized activities, which consist chiefly in family strife and almost invariably end with Maggie pelting Jiggs with crockery. Throughout the U. S. are lunchrooms...
...lies quiet on the broken strings. The gilded slender of Louis XIV lies dark and unremembered. The last white carnation has withered in the silk lapel. The last, late debutante has stayed her minute and departed...
Traveler In Richmond, Va., one Henry Perkins, jobless hitchhiker, begged a night's lodging at a police station. Given a cell, he spread newspapers on the floor, opened an expensive suitcase, dressed himself in silk pajamas. Then he took from his suitcase a small spray gun, sprayed the cot thoroughly, went...
...Leviathan entered New York Harbor last week and passed the Statue of Liberty, a fat old woman extracted from her pocketbook a faded U. S. flag of silk and waved it with practiced enthusiasm. Then cameramen photographed her stuffing it in her bosom. She said she had worn that flag next to her heart ever since she departed the U. S. ten years ago. "Viva America!" she shrilled. "America is my one grand passion!" She could shrill, too. She was Luisa Tetrazzini...