Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Always he carries a pocketful of 25? pieces which he hands out to Kansas City bums who are useful on Election Day. Rich and full of honors, he lives in a fashionable $100,000 mansion which burglars once robbed of $150,000 worth of loot including 480 pairs of silk stockings from his daughter Marceline's trousseau. Again & again he says: "I'm just an ordinary fellow who was able to keep his word...
Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822-1907) was a pioneer Suffragist, called by Susan B. Anthony "The soundest constitutional lawyer in the country.'' She stormed the Senate Judiciary Committee, resolute in black silk, and in 1888 assembled in Washington the first international convention of women...
...such smart Roman hotels as the Excelsior and the De Russie guests stared last week as fellow-guests, garbed in black silk mantles with white crosses and long black stoles, marched and countermarched through the lobbies. They were Knights of Malta, gathered together from all over the world in their first general meeting since 1788, to pay their respects to the Pope, Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emanuel, and to make pilgrimages to Rome's four great basilicas in honor of the Holy Year which ends Easter Monday...
Wearing a cutaway, striped trousers and congress gaiters, carrying a silk hat and a hickory stick, "ex-Senator" Coleman went grinning on to the floor, assisted by two young Negroes. There he answered questions: "I was born July 7, 1845 and belonged to Mr. Ely Coleman at Chester." His pay as Senator: "It was regular. I got some more when I voted fuh some of the bills." Prohibition: "Now on this prohibition question I'm all right. . . . Fuh two reasons. Fus' we needs a little liquor and second, dem what wants it gits it whether they buys...
...where Swedish law could not reach him and his fragile little romance crashed across the world's front pages. The young couple, dodging about London, was suddenly at the vortex of a wind storm of high diplomacy. The Swedish Ambassador to Great Britain, Baron Palmstierna, put on his silk hat and called on his King's grandson at his hotel. Could not His Royal Highness put off this whole hasty business for more mature consideration? H. R. H. could not. An attache called on Fraulein Patzek and Sigvard was furious. Wherever they went, to a West End restaurant...