Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spate of last year's novels a rich and strange book called The Salzburg Tales, by an unknown Australian author named Christina Stead. With her second, published last week, she made the oversight more remarkable. A needlewoman of extraordinary skill, she has made a lavishly embroidered silk purse out of the sow's ear of realism...
...occurred. With the backs of their heads shaved bald, the Baroness von Berg and Frau von Natzmer were led in coarse, nondescript prison garb to the blood-caked block from which so many heads now roll in the sawdust. The headsman, incongruous in his yellowish celluloid shirtfront, his old silk hat and his red-spotted tailcoat, raised the gleaming ax. Twice it swished down to sever a lovely neck and send the blood of a German woman spouting high. According to Nazis, the Baroness von Berg was the first female aristocrat to lose her head to their New Justice...
...Hitler rightly feels that he has hit on a wholly original and potent weapon for subjugating unemployment. But Der führer's heart- that Great Heart so much publicized in the Reich-yearns to give little cars to little men such as he once was. Facing the silk-hatted Corps Diplomatique almost defiantly, Herr Hitler fairly roared: "We are going to solve the problem of the cheap car BECAUSE WE MUST! I rejoice that one of our leading constructors has devised a car which will cost no more than a medium-priced motorcycle. Its consumption of fuel, Meine...
...general, uniform designers are almost as anonymous a lot as postage stamp engravers. Most famed uniforms are a gradual outgrowth of ancient traditions. Thus the sailors of Britain still wear round their necks a black silk scarf, in perpetual mourning for Admiral Lord Nelson. A few famed uniform designers are known. Michelangelo designed the uniform of the Swiss papal guard exactly as it is still worn. The Potsdam Grenadier Guards' uniform was designed by Frederick Wilhelm I of Prussia. Cadet James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose military career ended when he was under the delusion that silicon...
...purple-piped shirt open to the waist. St. Francis Robb said, "I'm a revolter. When you have a shirt cut as low as that, you have to have something in back of it, so I wear a white vest under it. Then I put a . . . purple silk sash about my waist. The women all fall in love with it at once and it is the envy...