They were not influenced in the least by the silk-stocking reform view of Mr. Platt. |
Didnt suppose you silk-stocking bunch in Sohmer ever had to work! |
At first blush, Ms. Maloney, who represents New York's wealthy silk-stocking district, does not seem to fit the profile of a rebel. |
I knew both the machine and the silk-stocking reformers fairly well, from many years' close association with them. |
Roosevelt needed no broken-windows theory to drive his crusade, just an outraged silk-stocking moralism, and fin de siècle New York City gave him plenty to be outraged about. |
Here is your aristocrat, one of your silk-stocking gentry, at your service. |