Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed from Egypt to be piled around and above the British Legation in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in case the Cheap Comedian should send bombing planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that his actual words as cabled from Addis Ababa by the Italian Minister were far stronger than the flowery official...
...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...
...Confident that he was pleasing Lady Astor, Dr. Burgin then drew further attention to her neat ankle by remarking, "I shall be glad to present the Noble Lady with a British-made pair of the best openwork silk stockings, if she will promise to wear them in this House...
...mechanism of a Japanese imperial birth. Soon carpenters will whack together in the Fountain Garden the elaborate Maternity Pavilion which has to be built of spotless new materials every time the lean, bespectacled little Emperor's physicians decide to wind his plump and pretty Empress in a white silk maternity belt purified by Shinto priests...
...women flyers, the most consistently feminine is 30-year-old Laura Ingalls. She sports high heels, lipstick, orchid corsages, wears silk lingerie under her dungarees when working. She also has a sharp female tongue in her head, as clumsy airport mechanics upon whom she has used it can testify...