Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high speed he proceeded to do a second painting of the Duchess in exactly the same pose (reclining on a couch, her arms folded under her head, a subtly inviting smile on her lips), but this time dressed in white silk. Confronted with the second picture, the Duke was temporarily appeased; but something apparently went wrong, he found out the truth and promptly poisoned his unfaithful wife. Goya lived to be 82, and the two pictures became world-famous as La Maja Vestida (Gay Lady Clothed) and La Maja Desnuda (Gay Lady Nude...
...that have been scrubbed almost white and carefully patched, a blue wool lumberjacket, his American work shoes (without socks). When he returned from the U.S. last year (he had been a track laborer on the Santa Fe near Cherokee, Okla.) he brought Margarita yard goods for dresses, and some silk panties; for the children, dresses, shirts, shoes, a leather jacket. He also brought back some new habits, such as washing his hands before meals and brushing his teeth-habits which he enforced on his family as well...
...Congressman he represents Manhattan's lone Republican stronghold, the 17th ("Silk Stocking") District. But his earnest Republicanism is as individual as his taste in cravats. Says he: "I could not . . . enjoy a damned good dinner and wine unless I were doing all in my power to get better housing for the people in the slums...
...U.S.S.R. banned them. In 1930, it permitted them again, if the People's Commissar for Finance found the purpose worthy. During World War II, lottery loans ran up to 2,200,000,000 rubles; they paid off in cash and also in kind, including women's shoes, silk dresses and a Persian lamb coat...
...fact that TIME Inc. correspondents in the field read F.Y.I, before turning to their copy of TIME to see if the news they cabled in got printed. Wrote one of them recently from our office in Shanghai: "F.Y.I, continues to be our favorite publication. We learn about Silk's ducks, Calhoun's sweatshirt, the TIME girls' parties for the G.I.s at Halloran (Hospital). . . . And how is luncheon at the Holland House, Isabella? And does one still see happy and familiar faces at the Three G's restaurant? Ah, forgive me, I'm weeping...