Word: silk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he joined," put their moustaches together in a back room of Matthews Hall and founded "The Harvard Lampoon, or Cambridge Charivari Illustrated, Humorous, Etc." One of the earliest issues--a collector's item if that's your idea of a good time--carried, in addition to advertisements for "Silk Smoking Caps, Japanese" and "Brier-wood and Meershaum Pipes, Gambier Bowls, and Toilet Articles," and pen-and-ink drawing of two typical Harvard students ensconced in a gaslit chamber. One gentleman, collared in celluloid, is reclining in a lace-fringed chair, smoking a catarrh cigarette and casually flicking ashes into...
Feng was a ham. He loved to play the successful man who did not forget his lowly origins. He affected a coarse cotton tunic, but underneath he wore silk-lined furs. To his guests he served only cabbage and dumplings, but when they were gone, he and his wife dined on chicken and fish. He displayed Christianity-once he baptized a whole regiment with a garden hose -but in 1930 he turned to Buddhism. He was a strict disciplinarian, and when his soldiers were late for drill he made them stand in a corner for as long as they...
Zhukov's timing was neat, for January is the show month of spring fashions in Moscow. Last week, in Moscow's white-silk-walled, many-mirrored House of Fashion, the newest creations of Russian designers were shown (see cut). The styles displayed proved that, barring an unlikely revolt by Soviet women, Soviet skirts would stay knee-short...
...greatest and most farseeing eye opened for the first time this week-and saw nothing new. The great 200-in. telescope at Mt. Palomar, weighing 500 tons, swung as smooth as silk on its massive bearings. The astronomers, deliberately avoiding objects of great interest, pointed it at arbitrary spots in the sky, just trying it out. The telescope, they explained, needed a good bit of delicate adjustment before it was ready to take worthwhile pictures...
...Communist, "we could have peace. He represents your lao pai hsing. With Truman and the rest there can be no peace." After eight days of this, he ordered the missionaries to leave Tsaoyang. Hard-handed Wong kept some souvenirs: two radios, Pastor Werdal's Parker "51," and a silk sleeping bag belonging to an elderly woman missionary...