Word: silk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Everleigh Club flourished from 1900 to 1911 in a 50-room mansion in Chicago's famed Levee. It boasted gold spittoons, silk drapes, thick rugs, expensive statuary and paintings, a gilded piano, and 40 specially made brass and marble beds. Little fountains squirted perfume into its rooms at regular intervals. Its dinners sometimes cost $100 a plate and were served on gold-edged china. Champagne arrived in golden buckets...
...INTENTIONS: "When you see me standing up there, mumbling to myself ... all dressed up in silk like a great pin cushion, you mustn't think of me as something quite apart, at a distance from you, uninterested in your feelings and your concerns. On the contrary, I am standing there like a great pin cushion for you to stick pins into me-all the things you want ... for yourself ... are part of the prayer that I am saying, and I couldn't prevent them being part of my intentions in saying the Mass, even if I wanted...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...amused behind the speaker's desk. A ruddy, portly old Socialist waddled up to the rostrum, his pince-nez and a finger wagging together. Cried he: "You are a clever fellow, Basso, and a good orator, but you have used us like doormats." Mopping his face with a silk handkerchief, Basso surveyed the old gentleman, then shrugged and turned away. The Socialist Party might be dead, but Basso knew where his course...
Next day Tom Dewey took charge of the Republican National Committee. In as chairman, succeeding B. Carroll Reece, went 47-year-old Hugh Scott Jr., a three-term Congressman from a suburban Philadelphia "silk-stocking" district.* Scott, a follower of old Joe Grundy, was recommended by Pennsylvania's Senator Ed Martin, to whom Dewey owed much. But that did not mean that Grundymen were going to run Tom Dewey's campaign. That would remain in the hands of precise, able Herbert Brownell...