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  • Carolyn Ho was at her apartment that overlooks Kaneohe Bay on the windward side of Oahu, on another enviable evening of silk-shirt temperatures, when the phone rang.

    OpEdNews - Diary: WHITE HOUSE REFUSES to Take Action Against Global Warming 2007

  • ` ` The trouble with you, '' he retorted, ` ` you don't know there's anybody in town except just this silk-shirt crowd. ''

    Alice Adams 1921

  • He had friends among the silk-shirt factory girls who came to eat their lunch in Washington Square, and he sometimes took a model for a day in the country.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

  • "The trouble with you," he retorted, "you don't know there's anybody in town except just this silk-shirt crowd."

    Alice Adams Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The focus of every photographers '' lens as he took his place next to the dugout in a smart overcoat, Chelsea blue silk-shirt and, somewhat ill-matching brown suede shoes, Mourinho sat passively in the pre-match build-up while the cameramen surrounded him.

    Analysis 2010

  • In its quest for six-digit download numbers, the industry has reduced Eminem, Lil Wayne and highly gifted producer Just Blaze to plundering grooves for the silk-shirt and silver-suited set.

    chicagotribune.com - 2010

  • What it is, foremost, is a restaurant serving dishes that toe the authentic line with occasional bursts of creative sass, without veering (thankfully) into the dragon silk-shirt ideal of insufferably trendy Japamerican food.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • What it is, foremost, is a restaurant serving dishes that toe the authentic line with occasional bursts of creative sass, without veering (thankfully) into the dragon silk-shirt ideal of insufferably trendy Japamerican food.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

  • What it is, foremost, is a restaurant serving dishes that toe the authentic line with occasional bursts of creative sass, without veering (thankfully) into the dragon silk-shirt ideal of insufferably trendy Japamerican food.

    chicagotribune.com - News 2010

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