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...Back in 1917, the new-rich were buying Chandler and Stearns automobiles, Sonora phonographs, French and Italian silk lingerie...
...with all my might." In the same year, suffering from uncontrollable fits of laughter and bordering on insanity, he met his future wife Gala (then wife of Surrealist Poet Paul Eluard). To impress the Eluards, Dali decided to get himself up "very elaborately." He tore his best silk shirt to shreds, shaved his armpits so deep that they bled, transferred blood to other parts of his body, turning his bathing trunks inside out, placed an enormous red geranium behind one ear, a pearl necklace round his neck, and finally smeared his whole body with a mixture of goat dung...
This week newly crowned Bob Young was feeling too chipper to fret over problems. In light blue silk lounging pajamas, he was relaxing in his Waldorf Towers apartment. Said he of his three new railroad presidents: "They have my wholehearted endorsement." Said he of himself: "I guess I'm sitting...
...need for tartaric acid is serious for munitions, baking powder, synthetic silk, photographic materials, candy. The U.S. requires at least 15,000,000 Ib. annually. Foreign sources of argols and lees (crusts and dregs) of winery wastes...
...Parisians. Visitors gaped at the huge sofas and tables imported from Savannah, were shocked on ringing the bell to hear Mrs. Green's high voice crying "If it's another bill I won't pay it!" At home, Father Green wore a Turkish fez; outside, a silk top hat. Impressed by Bible stories, young Julian tried unsuccessfully to offer up the topper as a burnt sacrifice, using the sewing machine as an altar. Later he managed to sit on the hat in church. "My father . . . uttered a low groan," beat Julian with a walking stick. Nothing worse...