Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisville was soggy with rain when the Greenbrier docked there at dusk. Soggy too were the President's silk hat, his dress coat. Sportingly he remarked: "If I'm going to leave a trail of pneumonia behind me in the middle west, I at least ought to go along the trail myself...
...last week the President could not oblige. In his stead Vice President Curtis did some button-pressing to flash a signal from Washington to Rhode Island. There a cannon boomed salutes. An airplane dropped noisemakers. U. S. Cruiser Dallas tooted its whistle. Two little girls cut ribbons while silk-hatted notables stood by. These ceremonious alarums celebrated the opening of the new Mt. Hope suspension bridge, world's seventh largest, connecting the two sea-severed fragments of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Best ceremony: initiation of Rhode Island's Governor Norman Stanley Case and State Senator William...
Died. Benjamin A. Armstrong, 85, board chairman of Corticelli Silk Co., president of New London National Bank of Commerce; at New London, Conn...
...strong view about the inscription. Last week that view was overruled by a Belgian court. Piquant was the triumph of the new library's U. S. architect, potent and temperamental Whitney Warren, famed in Manhatten alike for his ability and for appearances at socialite functions in a blue silk shirt and bulging white scarf...
...morning of graduation, the entire first class assembles in the area of barracks (the quadrangle) and holds an informal parade. The band leads them around and around the area; and they follow in any formation and in any uniform they choose. The uniforms range from two victrola records, silk lingerie, and so forth, to over coats, boots, and wash basins. A similar parade is conducted by the cadets in summer camp at reveille the Fourth of July...