Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York was amused to hear last week that Heywood Broun, big, shambling syndicated colyumist for the New York Telegram, would run as the Socialist candidate for the House of Representatives in the "silk stocking" district of Manhattan now represented by Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt...
James Edward etc. Lord Salisbury sat up abruptly, raised his gleaming silk hat, bowed amiably to his colleagues...
...Lords, though only six of them (besides the five royal commissioners) took the trouble to be present, were waiting in State. Then came the reading of the bills. Two periwigged clerks stood before the silk-robed Lord Chancellor, read out the name of each bill passed at this session of Parliament. After each item (regulation of motor traffic, working hours for barbers, etc. etc.) the first clerk bowed solemnly, the second boomed out "Le Roy le veult...
...said he last week to reporters, "I stood by my friend Mr. Brockway to protest against our effete Parliamentary system. The Labor Government will be faced with many more such protests while it continues to ape its so-called betters. Lord Tom Noddy may cut a gracious figure in silk breeches, but the same cannot be said of Jimmy Thomas [the Rt. Hon. James Henry Thomas, M. P., P. C., onetime engine greaser, today Secretary of State for the Dominions...
...Dressed in silk hat and long-tailed coat he approached Girard College, Philadelphia, to give an address. Explained the watchman, barring Dr. Wiley: "Stephen Girard laid down in his will that no minister of the Gospel be permitted to enter these grounds." Dr. Wiley: "The hell you say!" Watchman: "Walk right...