Word: silk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief of the Imperial General Staff Prince Kotohito Kanin, who had been designated "Honorable Girdle Parent" (equivalent of godfather), presented the girdle, a silk belt twelve feet long. Surrounded by the Empress and her court ladies, elaborately dressed in ancient, figured costumes, the Emperor saw Grand Master of Rituals of the Imperial Household Prince Kimitern Sanjo place the belt before the Imperial shrine and inform the Imperial ancestors of the coming event. Then, with the assistance of her ladies, it was wrapped around the plump little Empress. The child, seventh conceived by the Empress, is expected in mid-February...
...Great Man Votes (RKO Radio). Latest and youngest addition to the long roster of Hollywood "geniuses" is Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent...
...untutored occidental eye, "quaint" is the word for Persian miniature paintings. Humay Meeting Humayun (see cut), painted on silk about 1430, is a far cry from the type of pseudo-Persian fantasy, with harem maidens, moons and gazelles, affected by occidental illustrators. This painting, 6 by 8½ in., belongs to the Timurid period of 'Persian art, after the Mongol conquerors, Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, had brought in Chinese influences. But there is no Chinese depth or shading in the picture. The pure red, gold, blue and green robes of the figures, their rouged cheeks and the formalized tree...
...port of Bizerte in Tunisia 50 bearded old Moslem dignitaries, turbaned and in silk robes, presented flowers to M. Daladier. Silk-hatted French officials, in traditional morning garb, gave him European handshakes. The 7,500 British subjects of the protectorate praised French rule in a joint letter to the Premier. The Moslem population of Tunis gave his motorcade a wildly enthusiastic reception...
...tube fine as a hair, he injects a tiny drop of solution containing the virus, previously procured from infected guinea pigs, into the louse's intestinal opening. Then he imprisons the louse in a cage about the size of a matchbox, which has one side covered with fine silk gauze. Through the gauze the lice stick their mandibles. With these they suck blood from the arms of Professor Weigl and his wife (who have already had typhus, are now immune). After a ten-day incubation period the lice are dissected. About 150 intestines are placed in a sterilized mortar...