Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Versailles. Congressman Malcolm Baldrige, as Court Chancellor, addressed the regal train, the State's best and richest young and old folk. King was William Henry Schellberg, 6-ft., silver-haired president of Union Stock Yards Co., done up in the usual Empire court dress complete with cream satin knee-pants. Long a leading figure in Omaha, he is credited with having done much to build up the Ak-Sar-Ben stock show. Queen was Eileen Keliher-Jeffers (debut: 1927), daughter of Executive Vice President William Martin Jeffers of Union Pacific...
Among a score of U. S. women who will don long gloves, satin, tri-feathered headdresses to curtsey in stiff social homage to their British Majesties at this year's May Courts: Mrs. David K. E. Bruce (daughter and hostess of Ambassador Mellon); Miss Mary Elizabeth Beebe (daughter of Philadelphia Socialite Lucius Beebe); Mrs. Eugene H. Dooman and Mrs, David Edward Finley (wives of U. S. Embassymen); Miss Winifred Holt Bloodgood (daughter of famed Cancer Researcher Joseph Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins University); Miss Denise Livingston (of New York) ; Miss Natica Nast (daughter of Publisher Conde Nast). Because Ailsa Mellon...
...great Washington Bicentennial Ball at the Mayflower last fortnight, Mrs. Gann as No. 1 guest (the Hoovers did not attend) appeared in a Colonial gown of green taffeta with petticoat of white satin and lace. All her efforts to get Vice President Curtis into costume with a wig and sword were unavailing. Because of the dignity of his office, he insisted on wearing his ordinary evening clothes, watching the spectacle from his box. Chief Justice Hughes, who also attended, felt the same, would not dress...
...with a fun-loving British peer over the telephones which hospitable Joe Zelli placed on every table to facilitate social intercourse; or, on rare occasions, a tycoon-sired U. S. collegian squirting seltzer-water at beturbanned Indian moguls.* William Bateman ("Tinplate") Leeds provided a fine funeral complete with a satin-lined casket at Scarsdale, N. Y., for Pal, a German shepherd dog killed in a dog fight. Hearst's Boston American quoted friends of youthful James A. ("Bud") Stillman Jr., son of Banker Stillman and Mrs. Fifi Fowler McCormick, as saying that after being graduated from Harvard Medical School...
...Satin Slipper, "a, poetic drama of human destiny and spiritual salvation" by Poet Paul Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S., was published by Yale University Press. Excerpts from the preface: "Ideas from one end of the world to the other are catching fire like stubble. From Thames to Tiber is heard a great clatter of arms and of hammers in the shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark...