Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharpness and glitter of his dark eyes, the flash of his clenched teeth, and the arch in his nose, which looks like a small twisted club. He dresses with a certain flamboyance, and one visitor to Moscow, taking a good look at him, said, "A gangster in two silk shirts...
...duty to report that one mosque in Bukhara has been converted into a poolroom, not very handsome, and that Samarkand, the pivot of the old Silk Road to China, has traffic lights more or less like those on Fifth Avenue...
Clearly, then, what is needed in Cambridge is something which exploits the cover-all quality of the sack. Let us look to Radcliffe for a modified chemise. We might even get a silk purse...
Wearing all his decorations and an opera cloak lined with white silk, the Marquis de Cuevas, 72, strode before the curtain of Paris' Champs-Elysées Theater. Announced Cuevas: "I have received a letter forbidding my company to dance the ballet Black and White. I am not angry at France [the country of liberty], but at one man. The show will...
...form followers were still trying to figure out how he did it. With his breeding he should not have the staying power to finish a mile-and-a-furlong derby with a sprint. His sire, the Irish-bred Sullivan, seldom lasted more than a mile; his dam. Lady N Silk, also seemed mere horseflesh. With his build, Silky hardly looks like a thoroughbred at all. He has heavy jowls, the neck of a Percheron and the broad chest of a Turkish wrestler. He clops solidly up to the starting gate as if he were there only to pull it into...