Word: crepe
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...claw and smoky of breath. From a huge clock over a trapdoor at one end of the room sprang a man dressed as a rabbit. A harangue was made on his record during the year. At the stroke of midnight emerged a laughably fierce dragon made of tinsel and crepe, glistening with Chinese lanterns, borne aloft and twisted by six men. Soon Chungking's elite-cabinet ministers, generals, ambassadors, lovely ladies-linked themselves onto the dragon's hindquarters and went into a stamping, winding, lurching dragon dance exactly like those of the antique Ming and Tang...
...Cleveland Violinist Heifetz, with fidgety Artur Rodzinski's streamlined Cleveland Orchestra as background, gave the new concerto its first performance. Well-woven as a Paisley shawl, Composer Walton's opus proved warm as well as intricate. And though Cleveland's dowagers found its texture scratchier than crepe, Cleveland's critics fingered its solid warp & woof with enthusiasm. Said Clevelander Rodzinski, rolling a long cigaret of Polish tobacco after the concert: "This is one of the most important violin works of the century. Emphatically so!" Echoed Violinist Heifetz: "I'm very crazy about...
...Piccadilly Circus is the hub of London, and Eros is the hub of Piccadilly Circus. How then can the universe revolve, when its hub's hub's hub is missing? . . . Until Eros returns to his perch . . . all of us . . . will be wearing an invisible lozenge of black crepe on our sleeves, just in the place where we so steadfastly refuse to wear our hearts...
...another son, Eliphalet Whorff Dennison, for $9,000. From this humble beginning eventually sprang Dennison Manufacturing Co. of Framingham, Mass., today the leading U. S. paper converter, with $10,400,000 in assets and 1938 sales of $12,528,000 from a line of 9,000 items including crepe paper, tags, paper boxes, seals, gum paper...
...about his bride's and mother's clothes, reporters were finally able to see for themselves Mrs. Roosevelt in voluminous Navy-and-Eleanor blue, the bridesmaids in hyacinth blue net, the maid-of-honor (Sally Clark) in peach net, the bride's mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother James Roosevelt's eye, winked. At the church door...