Word: bedight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole difference between "I-know-what-I-like" and "highbrow" music was measured in inches. A ten-inch record was the familiar thing. A twelve-inch record signified something long and probably boring-"Chocolate Soldier Medley," perhaps, or "Selections from La Traviata." The music of the people was not bedight with red, gold and purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize...
...Honorable Great Lady, thus bedight, partook with her additional 300 ladies-in-waiting of bosat, a beverage then esteemed and consisting, much like the modern "milk shake," of flavored sugar and cream. While she presided, swathed to immobility in riches, the courtiers of Tamburlaine-according to an ancient historian-"would fall down drunk before her; and this was considered very jovial, for . . . there can be no pleasure without drunken...
...huge Palace of Westminster, called the Houses of Parliament, the lords and mighty prelates of the Realm were sitting on benches of soft red morocco. The King and Queen were on their thrones-His Majesty bedight with "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Queen Mary's robe of cloth-of-silver, blazing with diamonds, betokened that the Court is no longer in mourning for the late Queen Alexandra...
...King-Emperor, attired in a military uniform, freighted traditionally with medals, passed with his Imperial Consort through the whole range of state apartments -from the white drawing-room to the red and gold ballroom. Edward of Wales followed, bedight appropriately as a Welsh Guard...
Three o'clock in the afternoon, tea tables gorgeously bedight with flowers and silver-bedight but quite deserted-an orchestra crooning overhead-and a great crowd of women seizing catalogs surged ahead into the east wing of the Art Institute in Chicago to the opening of the 38th annual exhibit of American painting and sculpture. On the walls of the great chain of rooms hung 110 portrait and figure pieces, 91 landscapes, 18 marines, 16 still life paintings, and here and there on pedestals were scattered 58 pieces of sculpture-exhibits chosen from 1,200 items submitted. The women...