Word: damask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons. But to many cinemagoers her primping, shimmy-shaking travesty on the leather-lunged school of hot-cha singing may seem less a parody than an amateur-hour attempt at something Ethel Merman can do much better...
...owes an illustrious tablecloth which went on view last week at the Museum of the City of New York. As far back as 1887 it had been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root, Seth Low, Brander Matthews, Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, John Burroughs, Mme Marie Curie. Mark Twain signed a second time as S. L. Clemens. After...
...years ago Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, disliking the red draperies planned for the East Room of the White House, put up gold ones instead. Mrs. Roosevelt last week revealed that the President asked the Commission of Fine Arts for permission to replace Mrs. Roosevelt's with a red damask set costing $4,000. Other proposed changes: a new piano to replace the gold piano in the East Room (its tone is failing); $10,000 worth of air conditioning equipment to cool individual rooms in the White House (complete air conditioning would cost some...
Before matches, all contestants hold a dance called dohyo-iri (ring entry) wearing damask aprons embroidered to indicate their rank. Next they assure audiences of their sincerity by putting their left hands on their hearts, stretching out their right. After bending his knees, clapping his hands three times, spreading his arms out straight, shaking each leg, a wrestler removes his apron, purifies himself by putting salt on himself and the ring. Only then can the match start...
...Isotta-Fraschini, all gifts from pious admirers. If the Pope picks his favorite car this week for the 17-mile jaunt to the hills, he will clamber into the Dodge sedan, in which the back seat has been replaced with a large chair, slightly raised and overstuffed under red damask. In front of this is a small folding seat for the Pope's secretary. According to Papal Chauffeur Angelo Stoppa: "His Holiness likes speed. He orders me to drive between 40 and 45 m.p.h., and he likes it. The Pope does not speak to me very often when...