Word: silks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shah's widow Farah and their four children, the only foreign dignitaries who attended were former President Richard Nixon, exiled King Constantine of Greece, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt Alfred Atherton and diplomats from Britain, France, China, Israel, Australia and Morocco. At al-Rifai Mosque, the Shah's silk-shrouded body was placed on its right side by Crown Prince Reza, with its head resting on a pillow of sand, according to Shi'ite custom. On his deathbed the Shah had asked to be buried ultimately in Tehran near his executed generals, named Son Reza as his successor...
President William McKinley's wife used to have fits. If she suffered one during, say, a White House state dinner, McKinley would reach into his breast pocket for a large silk handkerchief, which with a matter-of-fact chivalry he would drape over her face. The President's forbidding dignity kept the conversation going, and when poor Ida, an epileptic, came around, he would remove the handkerchief and tenderly lead her back into the table talk...
...founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great, and the Shah of Iran had decided to throw a party that would dazzle even the most jaded of his guests: Kings and Queens, Presidents and Premiers, sheiks and sultans. More than $100 million was spent on tents lined with silk and furnished with Baccarat crystal and Porthault linens, banquets laden with roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, magnums of Château Lafite-Rothschild...
...city laborers. Tip O'Neill's father was sewer commissioner, a friend of his ran the water department." Hard on the heels of the Irish, the Portuguese, the Italians and the French reached the far shore of the Charles. "Between them, they took all the power away from the silk-stocking gang," Vellucci says with a chuckle...
...perilous journey to find their true king, the Simorgh. The few survivors find that the quest was a moral lesson-to look for the Simorgh within themselves. The playgoers' reward is the way the actors become birds, with gold, red and white beaks, and swatches of silk plumage...