Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boasted that 500,000 people would watch the team this year. St. Mary's rooters boasted two special trains for their annual two-week $54,000 transcontinental junket. St. Mary's players boasted scarlet shirts with white shoulders, decorated with green harps, blood-red headguards, emerald-green silk trousers, royal-blue stockings. Fordham had nothing to boast about except one point-result of Andy Palau's place kick after a touchdown on his pass to Jacunski-that outweighed two St. Mary's field goals...
Four years ago whenever Herbert Hoover went home to the White House, the silk hat on his head covered a multitude of political worries. At the same time, whenever Braintruster Raymond Moley tramped up the terrace steps at Hyde Park, the crushed fedora on his wrinkled brow covered manifold plans for Herbert Hoover's downfall. Little did either of them then dream that in 1936 they would find themselves brothers under their hats. Yet last week Herbert Hoover, no longer President, spoke his mind in Philadelphia, and in Manhattan Raymond Moley, no longer a Braintruster, put his mind into...
Meanwhile in London, sputtering Soviet Counsellor Samuel Cahan and silk-hatted Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky were blustering at Lord Plymouth in the Foreign Office "demands": 1) that the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain be again convened and 2) that Britain and France "blockade" Portugal to prevent that country-which does not recognize the Soviet Union-from transshipping arms to the Spanish Whites. The exceedingly blue-blooded and frosty Earl of Plymouth, an Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs, placed the tips of his white fingers together and murmured absolute refusal...
...behind their hands last week as they recounted an embarrassing incident that lately befell their No. 1 guest, 73-year-old His Highness Ala'idin Suleimin Shah, Sultan of Selangor in the Federated Malay States. The Sultan, happily attired to meet the demands of East & West in yellow silk trousers and a European overcoat, stood boggle-eyed before the hotel's rapidly twirling swing-door, was completely baffled. With Oriental arrogance he tried to pass through in the opposite direction to that in which the door was turning, got his yellow trousers caught, only managed to escape after...
...City a pale-faced street crowd jigs automatically to the twangy jazz rhythms of Alexandre Tansman's Transatlantique, an accompaniment which makes Dancer Hans Zuellig seem all the more lonely when he loses his girl to a silk-hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that...