Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Hamilton Fish, in whose silk-stocking district along the Hudson River lives a voter named Franklin Delano Roosevelt, asked leave to print in the Congressional Record the words of one of the few private citizens ever to be officially received on the House floor. Said Representative Fish: "Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to place in the Record the letter written by Col. Charles Lindbergh to the President of the U. S." There was not one objection but a deafening chorus of them led by Representative Alfred Lee Bulwinkle of Gastonia. N. C. The Democrats of the House were...
...long as he lived (she died 32 years before him). But he liked to have young and pretty women around. He finally gave up going behind the scenes at his friend David Garrick's theatre. "I'll come no more behind your scenes, David, for the silk stockings and white bosoms of your actresses excite my amorous propensities." His letter to Lord Chesterfield, "thanking" him for his belated interest in Johnson's Dictionary, is a masterpiece of dignified resentment against patronage. Though he himself defined a pension as ''an allowance made to anyone without...
...most touching tributes to the high ideals which American women maintain was demonstrated yesterday in New York at a meeting of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Under the leadership of their world president, Mrs. Ella A. Boole, who looked charming in a subdued black silk dress and a black hat with the white badge of the organization affixed to her shoulder, these courageous women planned a new crusade to root out the many evils which have flocked in with the Democrats and the Depression. Chief among these, of course, is the return of the nefarious liquor traffic...
...Aubusson silk tapestry screen...
...Directoire carved acajou and silk...