Word: satin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oklahoma City, the handy Brothers C. W. and J. W. Rollison. septuagenarian realtors with time on their hands, took a week off to build their own coffins, complete with satin pillow headrests...
...first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented at Buckingham Palace in a shin-length ivory satin dress, exhibited her paintings in London, won the Wimbledon title for the third time, married Frederick S. Moody Jr. So good was she that, for the sake of excitement, all tennis experts could do was look for her closest rival. They found one near at hand: Helen Jacobs, of Berkeley. Three years...
...Moody had packed up her rackets, sailed for England, only to be eliminated in the semi-finals of a minor tournament that made it clear that she had not quite reached her oldtime form; how Helen Jacobs had finally been presented at court in a full-length white satin gown the week Wimbledon started (see cut); and how, finally, the two girls had played through to last week's final. Now, at match point, there seemed nothing left for the crowd to see except how Helen Jacobs would finally accept the victory for which she had waited so long...
...group know that Mr. Richberg is not to follow Raymond Moley, Lewis Douglas, General Johnson, and Rexford Tugwell into that attractive, but non-political, circle of his-beens? He does seem quite impressed with being assistant-president, so impressed even that he may soon find himself in a satin-lined ash can. Other trial balloons have soared gracefully over the capital before but treacherous currents usually carry them to Utopia, and strange as it may seem, their maker at the time. So we have given up gazing at these colored balls and their tinsel instigators, and wait for the word...
...marriage, the music.* Harvardman Warburg picked Yale as the scene for his collegiate horseplay. Against a backdrop depicting Portal 6 ?A of the Yale Bowl cavort John Held Jr. characters in John Held Jr. costumes. Girls appear in short leopard-skin jackets, decorated with chrysanthemums and blue satin ribbons, while Kay Swift's music blends bits of "Boola-Boola" with off-stage cheers...