Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Travelogger Lowell Thomas: "The way is not broad, but it's long-(and it was more so 40 years ago)-from Peking through inner China, along the caravan trail of silk, past the Kunlung Mountains, Afghanistan, through Eastern Turkistan and the Khyber Pass and into India...
Just before dawn Executioner Deibler put on his silk hat and black cotton gloves, and a police official arrived with a priest, a prison barber, a glass of rum and a cigaret. These last Bandit Spada waved indignantly aside...
...farm-booming Tribune and the Journal share leadership and prestige, but neither has anything like the circulation coverage that denotes a dominant paper. The liberal Star (called by its competitors the "Workingman's Paper" because its mechanical departments are completely unionized and because it is shunned in the silk-stocking areas) gained slowly while the leaders stood still. Home-delivered circulation of all Minneapolis papers totaled only 145,000 in a population of 488,000. The field looked ripe for the sort of circulation ability in which the Cowleses are well versed. They bought the Star...
...Glass Key (Paramount) is a figure of speech employed by Ed Beaumont (George Rait) to predict the situation in which his political boss, Paul Madvig (Edward Arnold), will find himself if he continues to dress up in silk hat and cane, trade his power for the daughter of a re-form Senator seeking reelection. Sleek, sardonic, imperturbable, Ed Beaumont follows Opal Madvig, Paul's daughter, to a midnight rendezvous with Taylor Henry, son of the Senator, gives the youth a kick in the shin and takes Opal home. Later, grimly stalking the streets, he finds Taylor Henry...
...Boston adman; by William Cardinal O'Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...