Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tells us that in netting passenger pigeons the trappers would blind the decoy birds or "stool pigeons" by sewing their eyes shut with a fine needle and silk thread. The decoys were then fastened by their feet to the stool, which has a circular piece of board six or eight inches in diameter, fastened to a stick four or five feet long, the opposite end of which was placed in a slot in a stake, thus forming a hinge so that the bird could be raised and lowered by pulling a string running to the fowler's hiding place...
...power by the Senate (TIME, Dec. 15). Last week the Oustric case grew hotter & hotter. Clement Moret, governor of the Bank of France, testified that in 1926 as an official in the Ministry of Finance he had published a favorable report on one Oustric stock, an Italian artificial silk company known as Snia Viscosa, at the direct order of M. Peret, then Finance Minister. Later testimony showed that the then French Ambassador to Rome, Rene Besnard, had received large sums from Oustric after recommending this same company for listing on the Bourse. Andre Tardieu still remained unsullied personally last week...
...Smiling faces (the only ones Mr. Knickerbocker saw in Rucsia) all along the Red Riviera (on the Black Sea), the only place where Bolsheviks relax. . . . Silk stockings. . . . Silk dresses. . . . Nude mixed bathing. . . . The only jazz heard in Russia...
Above Lyons, city of silk and the finest cooking in the world, rises the whaleback of Fourviere Hill crowned by the flamboyant Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourviere. Citizens of Lyons who know call Fourviere "the moving mountain." It moved last week...
...Allen Orman, 23, held up with a toy pistol Frances Tauber, 21, hosiery salesgirl, robbed the shop of $30. In binding her to a chair he tore her stocking. Soon after she received a dozen roses, six handkerchiefs, an amorous telegram signed ISLE OF VIEW and a pair of silk stockings. Then Allen Orman telephoned her, asked for a tryst. Frances Tauber agreed, took with her two detectives, sent amorous Allen Orman to jail...