Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Editor Koltsov notwithstanding, most Russian women, except frumpy Red careerists, have remained coquettes, have scrambled for all the silk stockings, rouge and face powder they could afford...
...Vanderbilt. Forward in the servants' room were the cook, the waiter and a porter who once polished up the handles on Henry Ford's private car. In the five master bedrooms as the train was speeding through the Mohawk Valley, a number of notable people were getting into their silk brocaded pajamas for the night. One was Winthrop Williams Aldrich, chairman of the biggest bank in the U. S. Another was the bank's president, Henry Donald Campbell. A third was the bank's brilliant economist, Benjamin M. Anderson Jr. And a fourth was handsome young Nelson Rockefeller...
...assembled by Publisher David Kemp last week and issued in book form with an introduction by a still more spectacular young man named Lucius Morris Beebe. A hulking, hollow-voiced columnist on the Herald Tribune, Lucius Morris Beebe hires Rolls-Royces to attend cock fights, occasionally wears a silk hat to work, and is known to a whole decade of awed Yale undergraduates as the last of the boulevardiers...
...Prince of WALES'S morning-dress is either a chestnut-brown, or a bottle-green cloth coat, with a fancy-stripe waistcoat, and light stone-colour musquito pantaloons. The coat is made short in the waist and the skirts, without pockets or flaps, with a silk or covered button of the same colour; the cape or collar is made to sit close around the neck, with a becoming fall in front, which shows a small portion only of the waistcoat. The lower part of the lappel is not cut in the usual vulgar manner, but forms an elegant slope...
...Yale bandleader dropped his baton. The Harvard bass drum tipped over at a crucial moment. Incongruous in the smart Bowl crowd were two members of a traveling circus, a giant and a midget in a tall silk hat. In the interval after the third period, a spectator ran the length of the field, threw his hat over the Harvard goal posts, snickered at the crowd...