Word: floradora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 82, Floradora Girl of the early 1900s and central figure in one of this century's most sensational crimes of passion; in Santa Monica, Calif. Sixteen, nubile and stagestruck, Evelyn arrived in Manhattan from Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1901, joined the chorus line, became the mistress of famed Architect Stanford White (Pennsylvania Station), and later married a weak-minded millionaire playboy named Harry K. Thaw-whom she goaded with lurid tales of her escapades with White. On June 25, 1906, Thaw walked up to White in a cabaret, and without a word put three bullets...
...much as $50,000 each and are often manned by antique dealers from the fashionable faubourgs, St.-Germain and St.-Honore. Their wares are mostly remarkable for their prices. On sale there last week was a velvet dog under glass for $100, a screen commemorating the 1900 Floradora Sextet for $80, a portrait of Lord Kimberley on glass for $160 and a small silver-plated coin case...