Word: silk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Affecting to be a little embarrassed by all the ceremony, Harry Truman quietly waited the day which would bring him into the presidency in his own right. He worked on his inaugural address, admired his wife's and daughter's new clothes (a black-and-grey silk for Bess Truman, red gabardine for Margaret), answered his own invitation to the ceremonies with a little gag: "Weather permitting, I hope to be present...
...demand a recount of last fall's close election (Bowles won by only 2,285 votes). But the high point of the proceedings was Bowles's rakish appearance in the inaugural parade-he wore a dented grey hat with his cutaway. Said his wife: "Chet has a silk hat somewhere. But he just won't wear...
...dunes." On its good, grave editorial page, the New York Times took note of winter: "Stand by ocean's edge and you can see, feel, hear and smell the grey waters. This is the darkening interlude when the sea changes its hue and forecasts winter . . . snow." And the silk-hatted Wall Street Journal stuck a straw in its teeth and complained against the "tenderometer," a newfangled "diabolical machine [that] actually proposes to tell a man when his Baldwins . . . and Northern Spies are ripe enough to pick...
...past, Matisse's studio had always been as gay as a toy shop, sparkling with pinned-up scraps of colored paper, polished brass bric-a-brac and bright swatches of silk. This time it was chaste and bare. The only colored paper cutouts that remained looked like designs for stained glass windows, which they were...
Among the sayings Moore decided on were "Fools Rush In . . ." (in the window a little lady braves a lion's den to win a fox furpiece), and "A Stitch in Time . . ." (a doll-size girl sews a rhinestone on to a life-size silk stocking). Another proverb, "People Who Live in Glass Houses" called for two figures under a glass bell in the center of a residential square (see cut). The giant hands accusing them from neighboring doors and windows were meant to advertise Bonwit's gloves...