Word: crepe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were sentineled by blazing candelabra, seven-branched. . . . "Very pretty with lovely light brown hair and gray-blue eyes, the bride's youthfulness suddenly seemed to take on a certain queenliness as she swept from end to end of this lane of light. Her gown of soft white crinkly crepe was the essence of simplicity and therefore the perfection of chic. . . . "Held closely to her well-poised head, her fair hair visible through its delicate mesh, this airy, unsubstantial fabric [the veil] drifted in long, broad folds for yards behind her, as fragile as a mist, enmeshing her tall figure...
...crisp command the girls arose, marched out on the lawn. While teachers called the roll they watched flames writhe and shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls...
...planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built by the dead man. All airplane manufacturers were asked to plaque Santos-Dumont's likeness on all new planes. The Brazilian Aero League asked pilots the world over to wear crepe on their wing insignia for one year, keep silence for five minutes during the burial...
...pilots observed no silence. To put crepe on an airplane's wing is against all aviation superstition. Whether or not insular, U. S. airmen never regarded Santos-Dumont as a figure in U. S. aviation. Orville Wright was one of the few who ever...
Next day the corpse, in a black crepe dress pinned at the throat with a brooch. was laid out in the Soviet Parliament Building on the third floor. The G. P. U. (secret police) band at one end of the room played a funeral dirge now and then. Five men dressed as workers stood guard around the coffin. Two middle-aged women entered, wept softly for about an hour and went away. Who were they...