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...silken or in leathern purse retains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Splendid Shilling | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...away from home eight years ago and worked her way to Europe as a stewardess. Expecting a spirited, sprightly creature, her first audience was surprised to see an unusually large woman make a stolid entrance on the Carnegie Hall stage, to hear her sing in a strong, silken voice a recital which was consistently dull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Emmas | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

Eventually it was in the maize field that peasant searchers found Baroness Irma Molnar, strangled by a heavy silken cord. Tied to one of the tassels was a crisp card, on which was written in what some thought feminine script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Richest Woman | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

...poles were erected in sockets on the table and a bell suspended from them by silken cords. At a word of admonition the bell rang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ghostbusting | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Remarkable for his non-silken turn of mind is Bushnell Cheney (son of Horace B.), who helped launch the Jitney Players in 1923 and who remains the power behind the scenes. Last week his troupe concluded a two weeks' stand at the Cherry Lane Playhouse in Manhattan's Greenwich Village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Silkmakers | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

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