Word: satin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Young Fortune Teller, portraits of two children of the Duke of Marlborough, Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, in an Italian landscape, the little girl costumed as a gypsy and reading the palm of the little boy, five years old, dressed in a red satin Van Dyck suit. The picture is full of childish grace and animation...
...play ; pass for good. Sweet Nell takes gate receipts in good part on its costume. The last act of H. B. Warner's You and I is bolstered with gratuitous ; masquerade. Polly Preferred owes greatly to its costumes. And who can say how much has 18th century satin won of The Rivals and The School for Scandal...
...able to be present at the congress. Following the announcement of her election, Mrs. Cook made her first speech as President General. She came forward " in a becoming costume of blue moire silk and georgette crepe with an ankle length skirt. Her hat was of blue satin with a bandeau of white roses." Said...
...alas! He has not tongue of his own; only a few words and phrases which he has picked up through contact with his betters. Addison may pass disguised as a horney handed son of toil but a coal-heavier cannot hide himself under all the wigs and satin breaches in the world. There, then stands our literacy he be; with the shirt of prince and the overalls of mechanic; with the vocabulary of scholar and the ideas of a peasant...