Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a gleaming cylinder of silk hat balanced ceremoniously in his left hand, France's President Gaston Doumergue walked through the galleries of the Petit Palais on the Champs Elysees last week to open, dedicate and inspect the completed home of a collection appraised at $5,000,000 and offered to the city of Paris nine years ago. For nearly an hour he wandered through beautifully paneled rooms, expressing his presidential approval of cabinets of Sevres and Meissen ("Dresden") porcelain, jeweled watches, Battersea enamel, signed furniture from the great French ebenistes, a priceless series of tapestries from cartoons...
...That's history now. . . . Here's the record. . . . Here's a warm one. . . ." President Hoover was his main target. The house roared with joy when he asked: "Where are all those chickens that were to be in every pot? What became of the automobiles and the silk stockings for everybody...
Long white gloves, high silk hats, flashlight photographers, society reporters, scribbling furtively on folds of paper, critics mooning in their aisle seats-these adjuncts of the advent of another season of grand opera were this week on view in the opera houses of Chicago and Manhattan. In Philadelphia they had appeared the week before...
...boned, with a wide-flaring bronze beard and sweeping mustachios. "There was an elegance about him. He wore gauntlets of white buckskin, and rode in a gray shell jacket, double-breasted, buttoned back to show a close gray vest. His sword . . . was belted over a cavalry sash of golden silk with tasseled ends. His gray horseman's cloak was lined with scarlet. He liked to wear a red rose in his jacket . . . and a love-knot of red ribbon when flowers were out of season. His soft, fawn-colored hat was looped up on the right with a gold...
Surgical Threads. Manufacturers of braided silk and catgut used in sewing up wounds heretofore have tested their threads five or six days to detect any latent germs. Henceforth, to satisfy fellows of the College of Surgeons, surgical threads must undergo 13 days' test-this the suggestion of Dr. Frank Lamont Meleney, Manhattan...