Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golfer who walks like a sailor and sometimes plays like one: first prize of $5.000 on the windy, many-bunkered, palm-plumed La Gorce course at Miami Beach, beating Horton Smith, who got $2.500, by one stroke. ¶ Slim Maribel Vinson, 17, sophomore at Radcliffe College, in an orange satin suit trimmed with black fur: the national amateur figure skating championship, at Providence...
...evident embarrassment, a young negro in a white bag wig a trifle too large for him and black satin knee breeches a trifle too small stood on the main staircase of the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, while 2,000 people snatched programs from his hand and pushed past him into the official opening of .the Second International Antiques Exposition. A well- mannered, dressy crowd, visiting the antique show seemed as definitely a part of the socialite calendar as the horse show, the opera, the flower show, or Newport's tennis week. Restrained in their comments, visitors wandered from...
Days ahead it was impossible to obtain tickets at the $5 box-office price. Hours ahead a crowd ready, and willing to be come popeyed, collected at the flood lighted theatre entrance. By 9 p. m. those on the curb and those in boxes had seen Marion Davies (white satin and ermine), Lila Lee (green velvet and chin chilla), Billie Dove (satin, orchids, ermines) pass through the entirely fake Chinese portals of the Fox-owned cinepalace. At 10 p. m. the picture began...