Word: silks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...book, Lord Moran shows Churchill, clad only in a silk undershirt, trying desperately to plug up the drafts in an unheated airplane ("On his hands and knees, he cut a quaint figure with his big, bare, white bottom"). He reveals that Churchill suffered a mild heart attack while on a visit to the U.S. in December of 1941-and that he kept it a secret, even from Churchill himself. Reason: the war was going badly, and "I felt that the effect of announcing that the P.M. had had a heart attack could only be disastrous...
...Buckingham Palace in gilded grace swept the Irish State Coach, bearing Queen Elizabeth II to Parliament. The royal route through St. James's Park was lined by a thousand troops, and the equipage of horses and cavalrymen jingled cheerily between trumpet fanfares. The Queen, acrackle in white silk organza and wrapped in white fox, dismounted and marched up the Royal Staircase past lines of tabarded heralds to the Royal Robing Room. Then, having donned the 18-ft. red velvet train, originally tailored for Queen Victoria and a 3-lb. jeweled crown, she mounted the throne in the jammed Lords...
...Casting of Ethel Scull" is old hat around here. Ten years or so ago, Bette and I cast our faces in plaster; I had to go first. The casting went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without...
...smoking cigarettes. In 1905 the U.S. had more pianos and cottage organs than bathtubs. Mickey Mantle's testimonial versatility pales beside that of Henry Ward Beecher, the preacher, who in the 19th century endorsed numerous products, including soap, sewing machines and trusses. Once, nice girls wore black silk mittens to breakfast, and gentlemen kept their hats on indoors. And, in polite company, gentlemen referred to chickens as boy-birds and girl-birds, and never used the word peacock...
Special clothes hangers had to be found to accommodate the Indian Prime Minister's flowing silk saris. Red roses-her late father's favored flower -were arrayed around Blair House. As to whether Indira Gandhi should address the all-male National Press Club or the ladies' press corps or both, it was diplomatically decided that a joint session was called for. Executing such arrangements would be delicate even for old protocol hands. Yet this week's state visit-the first ever by a woman Premier-marked a last-minute premiere for a novice. Unruffled, James Wadsworth...