Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best head-geared men in the U.S.," declared the International Artists Committee (illustrators, artists and photographers), include Harry S. Truman ("The Front Brim Turned Up type"), Lucius Beebe ("Most Inappropriate Wearer of the Silk Top Hat type"), and Henry A. Wallace ("The Turban type...
Mesmer's method was to fill tubs with "magnetized water" (iron filings and pieces of glass). Hopeful sufferers sat around the tubs clutching at protruding iron rods while harmoniums, pianos and musical glasses tinkled and Mesmer and assistants in purple silk coats hovered about...
Most of his daytime dresses stopped at the calf, about where they had been two years ago. One black silk number called the Quartier Latin barely covered the model's knees. Dior, who boasts he does the biggest U.S. business in Paris, thought he knew what U.S. women wanted...
Money as a Tool. The career started 14 years ago. Eccles, a staunch Mormon, was also a staunch advocate of the theory that money is a tool to be used, not hoarded. As a young man in Mormon frock coat and silk hat, he had proselytized for the Latter-Day Saints along Glasgow's Clydeside. As a Utah enterpriser, he had used the sizable fortune inherited from his pioneer father to build a small empire of sugar, lumber and construction companies, and 28 banks throughout Utah and Idaho...
Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle And it soft as silk remains...