Word: satin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride, in knee-length white lace and satin, was seven minutes late to the wedding, and the bridegroom arrived 21 mintes later (flat tire). Afterwards, every body adjourned to the bride's place of business, Manhattan's Café Society Up town, where 2,000 guests were invited and 3,000 showed up. Then came the blowoff...
...critic during Maggie Teyte's barnstorming years with the Chicago Opera, the Boston and La Scala Opera Companies. Her favorite roles as Melisande in Pelleas and Melisande, Hansel in Hansel und Gretel, set off her charms to best advantage. Photographs of Maggie Teyte in knickers and sleek satin gowns with gold slippers were treasured items in the dens of U.S. dudes. Women crowded counters for "Maggie Teyte Perfume." But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled voice was better suited to chamber singing than to opera...
...vigor-just, he said, as "certain racehorses run for the pure joy of running." The product, Critic Rosenfeld points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld...
When Molotov addressed the conference, not one listener in a hundred understood his emphatic Russian. But they satin taut quiet, waited anxiously for weary Mr. Pavlov's translation. It told them much...
...stage, who weathered the Nazi occupation (despite one death report) in Morocco, put on a private fashion show to let Paris friends see the too-chichi gowns and hats she will wear on tour with E.N.S.A. (British U.S.O.). Her favorite getup: a "Russian" costume (see cut) featuring a white satin tunic, black velvet trimming, a train...