Word: trousseau
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...foremost British man-modiste, Captain Edward Henry Molyneux was commissioned to create Princess Marina's wedding dress, but she had fun in Paris buying much of her trousseau last week, heedless of the Empire watchword "Buy British...
...which he hands out to Kansas City bums who are useful on Election Day. Rich and full of honors, he lives in a fashionable $100,000 mansion which burglars once robbed of $150,000 worth of loot including 480 pairs of silk stockings from his daughter Marceline's trousseau. Again & again he says: "I'm just an ordinary fellow who was able to keep his word...
...been in his family for generations." A Hutton aunt tried to raise the issue of Mdivani Mohammedanism but Alexis' friends explained variously that he has either been baptized a Christian, renounced Islam or never seriously practiced any religion. Last week, after buying the last of the most expensive trousseau Paris has seen in years, including $180 worth of silk stockings and a $6,000 ermine coat Miss Hutton announced...
...spent the day writing diplomatic notes to President Paul von Hindenburg, Pope Pius XI, King George V, Premier Benito Mussolini and other foreign devils." Each note will be personallydelivered by Manchukuo's new Special Diplomatic Envoy, General Ting Shih-yuan who also had a brand new trousseau last week. On their missions abroad Minister Hsieh and General Ting will speak of a peaceful, orderly, independent Manchukuo over which presides "The Last of the Manchu Emperors," spindly, weak-eyed Henry...
...backed the Howell candidacy. "Boss" Pendergast used to be a wholesale liquor dealer; now he runs a ready-mixed concrete company. Once his $100,000 home was robbed, burglars taking, among $150,000 worth of other things, 480 pairs of silk stockings just bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. Pendergast was reported to have quickly won back his loss at the race track. A hard-boiled politician, he is extremely vulnerable to caricature in the hostile St. Louis Press? bloated face and body, long arms, short spindle legs. To keep his machine greased, he always carries a pocket full...