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...read a recent advertisement of Propper Silk Hosiery Mills, Inc., makers of Propper Blue Edge stockings. Last week there was another Propper announcement. President Leo Propper joined with President George B. McCallum of McCallum Hosiery Co. to say that the two companies would merge, thus refuting a statement last fortnight in which Mr. McCallum said negotiations had been "definitely terminated...
...order that this precious survivor of that disaster might be preserved more carefully and treated more reverently, eight Harvard graduates united to secure a silk-lined, levant morocco-covered, asbestos box in which it is kept in the Library Treasure Room. The donors were G.H. Norcross '75, E.H. Baker '81, J.P. Parmenter '81, Albert Matthews '82, Percival Merritt '82, J.A. Noyes '83, G.L. Kittredge '84, and S.W. Phillips...
Newsmen also asked Rear Admiral Moffatt, chief adviser on naval aviation to the U. S. delegation, why he was in mufti, why he had bought a shiny new silk...
...never painted a man, only young women with long, equivocal eyes like her own. She had never painted a blonde girl until she visited Norway two years ago and met one she admired. She once sent to the Salon D'Automne a self portrait, nude except for black silk stockings. For all social functions she plasters her face and paints a masque on it, a masque for whatever mood she is feeling. The brunettes in her paintings are nearly always herself. She has never taken a drawing lesson...
...Dover, England, one Bourh Tovi, Greek silk and cotton smuggler, fined $500. said he, wore 27 silk slips between his shirt and undershirt because he was cold...