Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much puzzled by proceedings which occurred last week in Manhattan's Hotel Chatham, small Bruce ("Jump-Bid") Culbertson and small Joyce ("Fifi") Culbertson conferred together in their bedroom. Presently, dressed in blue satin bathrobes, they rushed into the drawing room of the Culbertson apartment, amused themselves and startled a large gathering of formally dressed adults by screeching a ridiculous question: "Where's Santa Claus...
...Louis XIV costume. His queen was Miss Lida Whitmore, 22-year-old daughter of Jesse Dwight Whitmore, farmer and livestock feeder of Valley, Neb. Nine thousand spectators packed the Coliseum for the "coronation," 1,200 followed the king & queen to the Fontenelle Hotel where they sat on red satin thrones, ate a supper served on gold, danced one dance together. Said the queen: "I am having a delightful time." The king: "I was worried for fear those long stockings might come down...
...bride was beautiful, her name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a gown of shimmering satin designed by Jean Charles Worth, most chipper of Parisian grands couturiers, who hops about and chirps...
...What kind of clothes do you American women wear?" asked Mrs. Gandhi examining the stuff of Mrs. Johnston's dress. "Is it silk or satin? Is it hand-made or factory-made...
...boys' choir of the Chapel Royal sang hymns. The royal family, present with the notable exception of Edward of Wales, bowed their heads in prayer, while the baby princess, oblivious of the fact that she was wearing her great-great-grandmother's clothes?the ivory satin and lace christening dress of Queen-Empress Victoria?continued to gurgle. When the christening of Her Royal Highness Princess Margaret Rose of York was completed, the entire party adjourned to drink tea, nibble slices of a 90-lb. christening cake...