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...sort of thing to shake the confidence of those who have always believed a silk purse could not be made...
...Brooklyn Museum. This summer she too will be in Africa again, a quiet, gray-haired woman of slight physique serving science in African jungles. By day, on the march, she wears pith helmet, riding breeches, puttees; in the evening, has her boudoir tent pitched, changes to a silk negligee...
...team driver, and Mrs. Emma Delavergne, wife of the Mayor. A beribboned bottle was broken against the nose of each machine, but the bottle did not contain champagne, which is a lost word in Alaska. The odor that came from the ruck of glass and red, white and blue silk was the odor of aviation gasoline, raw and pungent...
...that they are on the way to their own dinners-and wait to be bribed. After midnight they usually demand a sum based on the appearance of those who hail them. A quietly dressed Parisian and his wife may get home for almost the day tariff. A silken-caped, silk-hatted Argentine millionaire with his hatless ermine-caped mistress may be held up until he almost buys...
...ante). This latter was created by Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie, then President of Fisk. The students were striking-indeed 150 resigned and decamped-because of Dr. McKenzie's alleged "Jim Crow" methods: allowing a Negro bishop to be insulted, segregating audiences at college concerts, banning mixed dancing, silk stockings, decollete gowns, leading Fisk entertainers into a white men's club by the kitchen door. The students were striking and they were demanding a new president, a black president...