Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...baroness and her two friends soon became the talk of the islands. Her favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled revolver. She liked to wound animals, then nurse them back to health. To visiting Astors and Vanderbilts she was hospitality itself but terrified fishermen from the mainland were imprisoned overnight or chased away at the pistol point. One shipwrecked honeymoon couple from Chile was sent to sea in an open boat, and there were other strange developments. With the changing seasons, the baroness' fancy also changed to Robert Philippson while Lorenz was reduced...
...private life is the respected wife of Producer Emmett Callahan, in the wings after her act, followed her to her dressing room, watched her put on dark stockings, white net panties, a peach satin garter belt embroidered ANNE, a robin's egg blue chemise, a pink silk slip, a long-sleeved, high-necked black dress, a black hat and long kid gloves. "Thus," wrote Reporter Ager, "does a strip artist in her private life get even...
...jealousy and another registering defiance in the last four. At the climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...
...average price of $27.02 per cwt. Tobacco income was up 35% over last year, was five times greater than in 1931 when the average price was $8.86 per cwt. Tobacco farmers were pouring into North Carolina towns to spend their money on automobiles, zipper jackets, silk dresses. At a Winston-Salem warehouse, where the average price has been well over $30 per cwt., Farmer R.C. Johnson, patting his wallet, explained: "We paid our debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around...
...motorbus he went to Toledo, La Mancha, Cordova, Seville, Cadiz, Malaga, Granada. Traveler Tomlinson noted all the proper sights but it was the least thing that set him philosophizing. In Toledo's Escorial he pondered the English novel; at Ubeda a dusty image of Christ in purple silk pants struck a chill into his warm feeling that Spain was more nearly in the right path than her more progressive neighbors. At Jerez de la Frontera he sipped sherry in cool warehouses, thought of Falstaff. whose favorite tipple was sherris sack. A tavern-keeper in Cadiz seemed to Traveler Tomlinson...