Word: silk
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Silk & Sake. Just as a "lucky day" was chosen for the engagement, so another "lucky day" will have to be chosen for the marriage. In the meantime, the Emperor and Empress will exchange gifts with the Shodas-a sea bream, the fish of good fortune, as well as sake and silk. Akihito will present his future wife with a jeweled sword to protect her chastity, and the Emperor will bestow on her the Grand Cordon of the Imperial Order of the Sacred Crown, the highest decoration given a woman in Japan. Finally, the young couple will exchange love poems, written...
...Count Ludovic Bielski, who illustrates the pathetic impotence of the old regime by spending his days knitting his own silk socks...
...face and figure are unfamiliar. But this week, when the black-haired, violet-eyed beauty strides across two pages of the movie trade papers, dressed in nothing but a wet white silk shirt, Hollywood will get the word. "R.B."-the modest monogram on the shirt's breast pocket-tells it all. Russell Birdwell, Hollywood's busiest huckster, is on the job. After a brief dry spell trying to direct pictures (The Girl in the Kremlin, Flying Devils), and a few months of promoting such inanimate products as automatic laundries, "the Bird" is back at his appointed task: fabricating...
...business-the man who happily takes credit for inventing Jane Russell, rescuing Norma Shearer from being treated like a superannuated widow, nearly succeeding in making Rumania's ex-King Carol popular. To launch unknown, 25-year-old Diane Hartman (Birdwell calls her 22) in that white silk rig, he has concocted some accompanying ad copy to the effect that Hollywood is empty of female glamour-except, of course, for Diane, who is described thus: "An untamed animal who has learned the art of song, mastered the modern primitive dance. A 22-year-old nymphet free of fingerprints-a desirable...
...would like to work in small groups, he can confer with advanced students on special projects. Most public high school teachers do not have time for work with especially talented students, thus Jerry Bell '58 is able to assist chemistry teachers at Newton High and Judith Silk '59 can work with a Somerville High teachers setting up chemistry experiments...