Word: garters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little gold key she wears pinned to her garter. She calls it her "key to happiness...
...last week. Albert Herman ("Sweetheart") Woods failed for about a million and a half. Producer Woods-his real name is Albert Herman, the "Woods" was an afterthought - achieved fame through a series of farces by Avery Hopwood (Fair & Warmer, Up In Mabel's Room, Getting Gertie's Garter) that caused the reformers of a decade ago to cry shrilly for the police. But Al Woods has innumerable friends. Notably sloppy in his dress, generally ill-shaven, he calls everybody, male or female, "Sweetheart" with the exception of his friend George Bernard Shaw whom he addresses as "Buddy...
Upon his arrival in London from his five-year tenure of the Viceroyalty of India Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, Lord Irwin got the Garter...
...silk hats of the gentry approved Augustus John's state portrait of white-chinned Viscount d'Abernon (Argentine Trade Mission, TIME, Sept. 23, 1929) in the red robes of the Bath, Sir John Lavery's state portrait of mutton-chop-whiskered Lord Lonsdale in the blue robes of the Garter, the ever popular sporting pictures of A. J. Munnings. World wide depression, they noted, had a marked effect in reducing the number of large statues on view...
...affected blockhead, the husband of one of the smartest "political wives" in Europe. Austen copied his father in all ways as best he could (omitting only the 19th Century orchid); he made a name once as great as that of his friend Briand; and he retired with the Garter...