Word: mantillas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back of the hall men and women in full evening dress made no attempt to control their laughter. Dignified gentlemen sat with handkerchiefs stuffed in their mouths and tears of mirth streaming down their cheeks. But Mrs. Jenkins went bravely on. For a Spanish group she wore a mantilla, carried a big feather fan, undertook a few little dancing steps to convey more spirit. While she was getting her breath, the Pascarella chamber group played Dvorak's Quintet and cameramen photographed the happy laughing faces in the audience...
...John Sloan, plump wife of famed Painter-Teacher John Sloan of Manhattan, President of the Society of Independent Artists. Mrs. Sloan's definition was publicly pronounced during the fifth annual "Carnival of Imagination," a benefit ball and pageant for the Halton Endowment. Clad in ruffles and a Spanish mantilla, Mrs. Sloan appeared as "The Art of Emotion," while her husband represented "The Art of Imagination" and others joined the ceremonies as "The Art of Parenthood," "The Art of Chicken Love." Mrs. Sloan's winning definition: "Art is that beauty which the imagination has created and which awakes in the observer...
...foreigners the graceful Spanish mantilla, a veil of cobwebby black or white lace worn on the heads of Spanish ladies,-is as typical of the country as bull fighting or olla podrida (meat and vegetable stew). In modern Spain the only times that mantillas are actually worn are at gala occasions, such as bull fights and during Holy Week. Her Majesty Queen Victoria Eugenie and the Infantas Beatriz and Maria Christina officially inaugurated Mantilla Week by marching into Madrid's cathedral last week, their heads shrouded in the most cobwebby of cream lace mantillas...
...mantilla should be about two yards square. It is a venerable test of quality that a good mantilla should be sheer enough to be pulled through a wedding ring...