Word: silks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Were Free (RKO). In the current revival of law in the cinema, Gordon Evers (Clive Brook) in If I Were Free, qualifies for a peculiar niche. He is not a daring semi-shyster like George Simon and Ernest Barringer. He is a London barrister in wig or silk hat. He has no office. But, like the others, he does have an unhappy love life and a thirst...
...dating from the War of Liberation from Spain (1810). Escorted by galloping lancers Dr. Gabriel Terra, heavyset, heavy-jowled President & Dictator, sped to open the Conference at 6 p. m. Alighting from their limousines in a sudden squall of wind and rain, delegates of 21 American nations clutched their silk hats and fled with flapping coattails up the marble steps of Uruguay's Legislative Palace to take refuge from the weather in its high-domed, multi-marbled and scarlet-trimmed Congressional Chamber. In the excitement the delegates of Paraguay got shunted into the spectators' gallery, failed to squirm...
...wired to Moscow well in advance for the more important measurements of the Soviet Cinderellas. ordered ball gowns likely to please Turkish Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha, had an expert modiste on hand in Istanbul to fit them. Used to cotton and worse, the Communist wives reveled in silk. "On my word." said a gallant Turkish Foreign Office official last week, "when the great ballroom of the Sultans in Dolmabagche Palace was filled with 3,000 guests in honor of Soviet Russia no ladies were better dressed than those from Moscow, though naturally their dancing was imperfect...
...front gallery of Washington's tacky old Smithsonian Institution stand the plasticine ghosts of 33 famed U. S. women. Once the hostesses of a nation, their attitudes are models of spectral graciousness. Sitting placidly in her painted rose silk, motherly Martha Washington has raised her head as though she has just recalled that another of George's huge hose is hanging by the fire and needs mending. Mary Todd Lincoln, who loved style as much as her homely husband detested it, enjoys an elegant moment of respite in her pansy velvet gown, serene in the knowledge that...
...Correspondent Barnes for the family that Dictator Stalin so scrupulously keeps out of sight. Two years ago, comparatively new to Moscow, he flushed Stalin's second wife, Vasya's mother, Nadya Alliluieva, young, shy and serious, in an industrial school studying to become manager of a synthetic silk factory. When she died last November of peritonitis, appendicitis or poison (she was supposed to have tasted everything prepared for her husband several hours before he ate it), she arose from public anonymity in a magnificent Moscow funeral. Last week Correspondent Barnes stood at the door of a classroom...