Word: silks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sophomore righthander made a smooth-as-silk changeup work with his two-seam and four-seam fastballs, and fashioned a four-hit, 12-strikeout shutout for his first win of the season...
...Didn't CELINE DION realize that a modern accessory like the pimp hat doesn't really work with the classic double-breasted, white-silk suit worn backward? 5 Could this pleasant-looking woman be the same FERNANDA MONTENEGRO who two days after the Academy Awards said Gwyneth Paltrow bagged her Oscar only because she is "thin, pure and virginal" and Life Is Beautiful "didn't deserve...
After I had lunch with some Playboy execs in the dining room, where the waiter was summoned by the push of a button on the table, Hef joined us. He was wearing the smoking jacket and silk pajamas. He looked extraordinarily young for 72, especially his wrinkle-free hands, which made me worry that he had struck some deal with the devil. Then I realized that if he had, he cut the best deal ever...
Another typical evening. A group of perfectly groomed young gentlemen in dinner jackets stroll to their club for a brief bourbon. Tonight, the glittering ballroom of the cotillion is theirs for the taking. Silk gowns sway and champagne flows. The band thrills and the playboys survey the scene. The party swells. In the early morning hours, the gala subsides and the young men return to their lush apartments on Mount Auburn Street...
...their rooms, boys parted with exorbitant amounts of money to continue their high stakes reveling far into the night. Many Golden Youth kept scrapbooks of their social lives during the turn of the century--records of parties and club dinners and inordinate activities. They saved: scrolled Hasty Pudding invitations, silk-tasseled dance cards for exclusive parties, gold engraved menus for Porcellian dinners boasting aged port as an aperitif, festooned playbills, thick opera programs and multitudinous cotillion invitations with summons to some of the most prestigious and exclusive clubs and hotels in Boston. William Gibbons Morse, Class...