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...good Idea if the government or the judges would get together and put a stop to this, my wife is beginning to be a cult fanatic or religious fanatic, . . . they don't comb or straighten there hair or use paint or powder-don't wear no silk stockings, just buy his paper he write and he tell them to get all in the cult, he is going to give all colored people work, if you follow him you will have fine automobiles and everything. . . . my wife say she came in from the meeting and a big light...
...President's own limousine rolled up to the White House portico and out stepped the stocky, silk-hatted figure of Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, first Soviet Ambassador to the U. S., first diplomat from Russia since Kerensky's representative departed in 1922. With his escort he waited in the Green Room for a moment until the President was ready to receive him in the Blue Room. In excellent English the Ambassador read: . . . The very fact of the cooperation and friendship between two such great and powerful nations as the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics must...
...Aubusson silk tapestry screen...
...Directoire carved acajou and silk...
...went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath, the babe was swathed in a kimono of heavy white silk, the gift of Dowager Empress Sadako, most revered female in Japan. Only then was he ready to be named...