Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lounging in flowered silk pajamas 3,000 miles away on the estate of Tammany Counsel Samuel Untermyer. Mayor Walker dismissed the accusations as "old stuff." Although he failed to make further comment, his home town press played-up stories about the beneficent effect of California sunshine on his health, accompanied by photographs of him wrapped in sheets, lolling in the sun. Adjacent to one such picture the World-Telegram printed a photograph of Mrs. Walker on her vacation-in Florida...
Quick-witted, capable, industrious, ironic, "Joe" Cotton preferred informality to diplomatic pomp. He smoked an old corncob pipe, cocked his feet up on his desk, "cut" dull official ceremonies, eschewed a silk hat. He had a forthright manner of cutting through diplomatic cir- cumlocution, which at first startled and later delighted foreign envoys in Washington. Once asked why he did not play medicine ball with the President, he replied: "Because it wasn't in the contract...
Heckled another, "I suppose you and him think you're Socialist! You in your black silk lay-dee-day-dee's gown this minit...
...Embassy in Paris last week. Ambassador and Mrs. Walter Evans Edge assembled not the impotent dukes and counts of the beau monde but aristocrats of another sort, people whose names stand in France for economic power. Up from Lyons came M. Edmond Gillet, calm, wise, secretive "silk King of France.'' In bustled short and forceful M. Andre Homberg, bald but bewhiskered* president† of the French Line, of the Societe General (one of the largest French banks), high executive of the famed Compagnie Internationale des Wagon-lits. Came too the man who is reorganizing the French sugar industry...
Serious Matters? Eve Garrette Grady wrote that she learned not to laugh when clothes-hungry Russians asked her on the street for how much she would sell, then and there, her panama hat, her white linen frock, even her silk stockings...