Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grave and reverend seniors in their black silk gowns and dainty lace jabots are the 15 judges of the Permanent Court of International Justice at the Hague, better known as the World Court. It is their privilege to meet in one of the pleasantest, most impressive of courtrooms, the great Peace Palace built by Andrew Carnegie in 1913. To underwrite their deliberations all member nations pay, through the League of Nations, annual sums totaling about $500,000 (each judge's salary is $18,000 a year), and are expected to lay before the court for final settlement their gravest...
Blunt, hard-headed Walter Runciman. president of Britain's Board of Trade, called in Japan's Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira one day last week and gave him a strange ultimatum: Either the Japanese Government agree to divide the world's markets for cotton and silk cloth equably with Britain, or Britain would keep Japanese cloth out of Britain and its colonies by means of import quotas based on what Japan sold during the 1927-31 period. Ambassador Matsudaira passed the ultimatum on to his Government which presently sent back word that Japan wanted to think it over...
...Arthur Ruhl of the New York Herald Tribune, is everything that his enemy is not: tall, handsome, scholarly, a Harvardman (1903), Unitarian, Elk, Rotarian and Republican. The Medford upper crust approves of him highly, but the mass of Rogue River small orchardists and laborers regard him as a silk stocking. With an editorial entitled "TIME TO WAKE UP," Editor Ruhl called upon his readers to "prevent armed rebellion and bloodshed under Llewellyn A. Banks-the John Brown of the Depression." The climax occurred when the courthouse was sacked and ballot boxes stolen. Constable Prescott was sent to Banks...
...strung them upon my red silk dress...
...soft, enfolding silk...