Word: silks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duchess Dowager of Devonshire, assisted by the Lord Great Chamberlain, unfastened the silk ribbons that held the Queen's train, and slipped over Her Majesty's arms a white muslin smock. Thus, with jewels hidden, Elizabeth crossed the chancel to her seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk...
Symbols of Kingliness. Thus sanctified, the Queen was invested with the Colobiun Sindonis, "the robe of purity," and over it the Supertunica, a belted cloth of gold lined with crimson silk. She was ready to receive the emblems of temporal power...
...punish and reform what is amiss, and confirm what is in good order." The Queen took the Sword, advanced with it to the altar and offered it to God. Turning, she stole a glance at the royal gallery, where her 4-year-old son Prince Charles, in a white silk suit, watched enraptured. She paused and returned to the chair...
Look East, Old Europe. Next to the Iron Curtain, European and Japanese traders resent the thickets of U.S. tariffs and import regulations. Said a Japanese: "The Americans tell us not to trade with the Communists . . . then they turn around and raise their duties on tuna and silk scarves. It doesn't make sense...
...professor was only telling the truth. Loping over the campus, his cape flapping in the wind, he always seemed to be having fun-of his own special kind. For years he wore plus-fours (until a doctor told him they were bad for his circulation), but he kept his silk shirts with their flowing sleeves. To compensate for his balding dome, he wore his hair long in back. In winter he crammed it inside a beret; in summer he used a hairnet...