Word: smalling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...claimed diplomatic immunity. The Customs men communicated with the State Department, which verified their belief that diplomatic immunity is granted only to ambassadors or ministers and their wives, not to vice-consular ladies. Promptly the agents broke the seals, opened the trunks, lifted out laces, silks, and many a small tin box. The tin boxes contained a substance which the Customs men instantly recognized as opium?about $600,000 worth at current U. S. prices...
Hats. Still mainly smooth to the head but trending to draped turbans. Small- feather trimmings. Some, adventurous, wear low wide back brims of a salty flavor, reminiscent of fishermen's waterproofs...
Fabrics. Velvets, transparent and patterned; chiffons and rayons shot through with metal threads; woolens ingeniously woven through with small wisps of feathers...
Carnival. Camilla's lover, honestly wishing Camilla to divorce her husband as well as return the diamond she found, thus proves himself too "small," too respectable, for her "great adventure...
...Greenwich, Conn., a small boy fired a pistol at a bird on a branch, missed. The bullet passed through a hotel window screen, was halted by the corset of a Mrs. William O. Remsen, guest...