Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legal maximum which may be taken out of the country), after being well briefed by the British resident agent of an international ring. On deplaning in Geneva, he exchanged his pounds for Swiss francs at the official rate of 17 Swiss francs per pound. He picked up a silk shirt and a silver cigaret lighter, reserved one Swiss franc for carfare. Before going on to France, he handed the remaining 1,200 Swiss francs to the ring's Swiss operative (France does not permit travelers to bring more than 1,000 French francs into the country...
Calmest man in the kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...
...Communist. The U.S. was the biggest force in the world, but what happened elsewhere was none of our business-until the bombs landed on the U.S. Uncle Sam became Uncle Sap in C.D. Batchelor's News cartoons, and the outside world was a seductive harlot in a tight silk dress and a skull's face, labeled "World...
...chimney for the burning of the Yule log at the Christmas dinner ceremonies. Through all of this, the Perkins wit made life more bearable, for the complicated problems of man in a complex House were always met by a notice in the Perkins style explaining perhaps why a striped silk shirt did not pass for a formal jacket at High Table...
...Silk Stocking Congressman then threw some hardheaded political arguments at his critics. "You can't be elected by reactionaries in my district. There are only 29,000 Republicans. ... I was elected by 77,000 votes, which means that about 50,000 independents voted for me. For years you have had to be a reactionary to get nominated in the Republican Party and a liberal to get elected...