Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lynn, Mass., Lois Taylor, 3, went out to play, garbed in felt hat, pink silk dress, scarf, and underwear, new shoes and rubbers. At midnight she returned in an old red sweater, red hat, dirty old shoes. Her pretty curls had been hacked away. Horrified, her mother told the police. Their discovery: Lois had played "house" with another little girl, had lent verisimilitude to her rôle of "father" by changing her clothes, cutting her locks...
...richest man in Italy five years ago was Signor Riccardo Gualino, clapped into jail last week. Like the Courtaulds of England, the Gillets of France, the American du Ponts, Italy's Gualino reaped stupendous riches from the comparatively new trick of producing silk without silkworms. He became a billionaire-in lire. Only recently Billionaire Gualino was virtually sole owner of Snia Viscosa, the leading Italian artificial silk works. His philanthropies were on a scale approached by no other Italian. Sometime ago, when his affairs became entangled, "The Richest Man in Italy" was able to borrow from Banca Agricola Italiana...
...learn a few facts about a young man who has in the past three years sketched or photographed most of the famed beauties of Britain and the U. S., has written dozens of chatty articles for international smartcharts. Attired in orange-&-white pajamas, dressing gown of black-&-white corded silk, he readily admitted that he had been to Harrow and Cambridge, had been drawing and painting ever since he was seven, took up photography seriously at Cambridge where he had a studio. Photographer Beaton's father is "something in The City...
...black islanders swarmed down to greet Lieut. Wirkus, for Timemenne, their queen, had told them of his great goodness. Later tom-toms tommed. Clarine† flowed down black throats. Ebony girls danced soberly. And upon the unruly yellow hair of the white man was put a tall crown of silk, glass bits, sea shells. The natives called him King Wirkus I and he ruled jointly with Queen Timemenne for eight years...
...afternoon of her U. S. tour Miss Wilkinson will devote, she said, to shopping. Queried newshawks: "What will you buy?" Replied Wee Ellen, defiant, candid: "Silk undies! I hear yours are wonderful...