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Silk-stocking politics at Washington. (P. 7.)
"It is an extraordinary fact that the silk-stocking element is often the greatest offender in whispering campaigns. It is the woman with the low-necked dress and with orchids, and it is the young broker seeking to justify his political prejudices, who lend themselves to being carriers of these...
In the spring of 1923 a young lady, Dorothy King by name, had been murdered in her Manhattan apartment?strangled with a silk stocking. It was a magnificent crime. After a few days it was given out that the District Attorney knew of a "Mr. Marshall" who was connected with...
Scene. At Potsdam, described as "a silk stocking district of Berlin," where the former Imperial Court held sway, princes of the blood royal, princes not of the royal blood, and strings of the lesser nobility, all with high sounding titles, went to the polls to record their votes. The election...
A dog invests in a buried bone. A peasant invests in a silver filled stocking. A fool invests in wildcat stock. But a Manchurian War Lord invests in munitions. Chang Tso-Lin, sitting at Mukden, took inventory of his assets. He decided to diversify and strengthen his holdings by new...