Word: silks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sailor was drunk. He held a half-empty bottle of whiskey as he swooped into a silk and fur shop. The half-dozen Chinese clerks inside looked apprehensively at each other...
...Silk-hatted Jiggs had made McManus a well-dressed millionaire-and had chained him to a seven-day week. In Manhattan last week to attend the lunch and to sign a contract for a series of Maggie & Jiggs movies, McManus borrowed an office. There he and assistant "Zeke" Zekley scratched away to keep up to date on the daily and Sunday strips for which more than 400 newspapers in 32 countries pay him more than $100,000 a year...
...Europe that is steadily congealing into collectivism, a middleaged, roly-poly, red-haired Italian is successfully preaching the gospel of individualism. His message: the future belongs not to the politicians but to uomo qualunque (the common man). Last week a stream of converts-horny-handed artisans, lacquered Army officers, silk-stockinged girls, broad-veiled nuns, clerks and plain common men- were beating a path up a back street of Rome to the house of the prophet...
Cloud Climbing. For making a silk purse out of a sow's ear, button-nosed Bo McMillin rates high as the coach of the year. He took a quick look at his material last September, and winced. Then things began to happen. Bo converted John Cannaday, ex-quarterback and guard, into a center; he moved Russ Deal from guard to tackle. Burly Howie Brown, thrice wounded in Europe, showed up just after the Michigan game, and plugged a hole at guard. Another ex-G.I, All-America End Pete Pihos, became a pile-driving fullback. Negro Halfback George Taliaferro...
...more than a thousand years the legend of Tristan and Iseult has been one of the world's best-loved love stories. Medieval ladies embroidered scenes from the tale on fine linen and silk; medieval craftsmen enshrined the lovers on gold and ivory and wood. Tristan and Iseult were also favored by scores of poets, including Chaucer, Matthew Arnold, Swinburne, Tennyson, Hardy, Edwin Arlington Robinson and by Composer Richard Wagner, who built the legend into an opera...