Word: satin
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...peculiar to the 20th Century, Sportsman Pilot for August (out last week; published an article, "Matches Made in the Heavens,'' proving that the aerial wedding stunt is something like 100 years old. Publicly-loving couples of the 19th Century used to get married in balloons decked with satin, festooned with ribbons and banners. Historians of these phenomena are Mrs. Bella C. Landauer, Manhattan bibliophile and only important woman collector of aeronauticana, and Harry Bischoff Weiss, associate editor of the American Book Collector...
...force for the Union Army.) A crowd of 6,000 cheered the take-off of the Jenkins-Boynton party from Manhattan's Central Park. The balloon was a gorgeous affair, the basket draped with red and gold damask, thickly carpeted, with a cushioned seat covered in green flowered satin. The cords from the bag were alternating red, white and blue, crossed by ropes of red and green. U. S. flags stuck out at all angles. Bride & groom were dressed magnificently. High above the city they signed a marriage contract, landed in the suburbs, rode back to town that night...
...coat for which the Roman soldiers gambled while Christ was dying on the cross. It is supposed to have been found near Jerusalem about 330 by St. Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine. At Trier it is displayed on a white satin, gold-embroidered cloth. To it are ascribed many cures, especially of lameness...
Until at least 1926 the ruling house of Saxony followed something of the same procedure. As soon as death was certain, the heart and entrails were removed. The heart, in a casket, was placed on a white satin pillow at one side of the coffin; the entrails in a white satin-covered jar, at the other side. When the coffin went to its vault the heart-casket and entrails-jar went onto a bracket alongside...
Shimmering in white satin, trailing a ten-foot train, Senorita Sampedro approached the altar to exchange rings, Latin fashion. Her bridegroom, she knew, had broken down in sobs the night before, when told that ex-King Alfonso XIII irrevocably disapproved. Now he was smiling. Beside him stood the only Spanish grandee who could be induced to come, Duke Manuel Almadova, as best...