Word: damask
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slowly, Anne walked through the hall on the arm of her uncle Erik Frederik Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
Last week Gonzá1ez received some 200 man-in-the-street callers in his huge, gilt-&-damask office. A taxi driver under 60 days' sentence for drunkenness explained that he was not driving while drunk-just sitting in his taxi on the edge of town, knowing that he had had one too many. The President suspended sentence...
...Received some 2,000 guests in the gold and damask halls of the National Palace. ¶Got a ten-gallon Stetson and a cowboy shirt from a Texas delegation headed by Governor-elect Beauford Jester. ¶Received calls from leftist ex-President Cárdenas, rightist ex-President Abelardo Rodriguez and middle-of-the-road ex-President Camacho. ¶Made a big hit with newsmen by holding Mexico's first give& amp; -take presidential press conference, broke another Mexican precedent by starting it at the scheduled time. But he neatly parried all attempts to define his new regime...
Biographer A. J. Hanna, professor of history at Rollins College, is handicapped by generally skimpy sources, but gives tantalizing glimpses of an ex-Crown Prince wearing homespun, of tea served in a log house with Napoleonic gold spoons and damask napkins bearing the royal Neapolitan crest...
...Perfect Bahram-went to the post at Churchill Downs, Elizabeth Arden Graham, who never started a horse in the Derby before, would be on a par with the late Harry Payne Whitney, who sent Upset (the only horse ever to beat mighty Man o' War), Wildair and Damask postward in 1920. The best Whitney could get was second with Upset...