Word: snakeskins
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...White House, past the expressionless Negro footmen, into the ultimate social sanctum of the land, there passed one afternoon last week a slender, middle-aged invited guest wearing an afternoon dress of capri blue chiffon, a grey coat trimmed in moleskin, a small grey hat, moonlight grey hose, snakeskin slippers. She was well pleased to be there; to be greeted by the First Lady; to see Mrs. Good, the Secretary of War's wife, pouring the tea, and Mrs. Attorney-General Mitchell conversing politely. Also present were a Mrs. Bacon, a Mrs. Kelly, a Mrs. Free, whose husbands...
...lounged on cushions of matched snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"-this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued...
Since Mlle. Banky now resides in Hollywood, the suit for libel was brought by her father, who almost escaped notice last week when Defendant Sari Fedak swept into court, clad in a black gown tight as snakeskin, looking perhaps half her 43 years...
...that journey, but Guy went it, by Panama. For months he roamed the roaring, gold-dusted country asking the cream and scum of 40 nations, not for metal or favors, but for word of her. No woman stayed him though he succored one, a young Italienne with a snakeskin headband, quite mad with working her blind father's claim...