Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well past curfew when a Cambridge University proctor, making his dignified, unhurried rounds in search of undergraduate truants, spotted two G.I.s emerging from a pub. The "bullers" (proctor's legmen) got set to grab their silk hats* and give chase. But the Americans held their ground. When he was close enough to speak without raising his voice, the proctor tipped his .mortarboard in greeting and put the traditional progging question: "Sir, are you a member of the University?" One of the G.I.s nudged his companion and demanded loudly, beerily, and in approximately these words: "Say, Eddie...
Under this SCAPitalism, U.S. markets are in no danger of being flooded with cheap Japanese toys, Christmas-tree lights, pottery, etc. Japan's initial exports will be largely from stocks accumulated during the war-80,000 bales of raw silk, 75,000,000 yards of mixed fabric, 1,500 tons of tea, nearly 1,000,000 grams of cultured pearls. Small amounts of silk, tea and such lesser items as agar-agar (a gelatinous substance extracted from seaweed) may reach the U.S. this year. But most Japanese goods now available for export are suitable only for nearby Asiatic...
Drapes of eggshell rayon silk, fully a verst of it, hung from the ceiling to the floor. Behind the table stood a large portrait of Stalin, edged in red. There was no soft music, no suave couturiers. The mannequins (rather plump) sported no fancy make-up or nifty hairdos. Commissars, scholars, artists faced the circular platform. Paulina Semionovna Zhemchuzhina (Madame Molotov), head of the Soviet Cosmetics Trust, was there, chatting brightly with Textiles Vice Commissar Dora Moissevna Khazan. In Moscow's House of Fashions, tailors and dressmakers of the state were displaying what the well-dressed tovarish should wear...
Austere Georges Thierry d'Argenlieu, Vice Admiral of France and Father Provincial (on leave) of French Carmelites, sat stiffly under nine royal umbrellas of silver and white silk. Beside him lolled young (23), plump-cheeked Norodom Sianouk, king of sleepy Cambodia. As colored searchlights played over the Pnom-Penh palace grounds, monarch and monk watched ornately dressed, slant-eyed dancing girls glide through the supple, serpentine movements of the Cambodian ballet...
...command performance honoring Admiral d'Argenlieu, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who with a single word had brought joy to Cambodia. Resplendent in purple wrap-around sam-pots, beribboned white tunics and black silk stockings, the bun-haired mandarins of Cambodia's court had smiled when they heard d'Argenlieu address their monarch as "Sire." The courtiers knew this meant that France no longer considered Sianouk as a native chieftain but a real king, and Cambodia not as a protectorate but as an almost-autonomous state within the framework of a projected French union. In return...