Word: satin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of the brigands of thought were led by Poet Théophile Gautier, who wore a scarlet satin vest and green silk trousers. Others wore "red vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round...
...before the picture window of his penthouse studio, Hugh Ferriss, U.S. architecture's most grandiose seer, has often watched dawn come to Manhattan. In that same studio for 17 years he has let his imagination conjure up the future city-magnificent crystal towers, highways like gleaming strips of satin, the aerial span of bridges. For a quarter-century his penciled imaginings have decorated the rotogravure section of the New York Times, the pages of architectural magazines. A professional at architectural "rendering," and otherwise untrammeled by blueprints and specifications, Hugh Ferriss long ago evolved his own self-definition: visualizer. Last...
...slipped away for a two-day rainy honeymoon in a cottage at Tagaytay. But they were not alone; they had to see to the care & feeding of two baby giant pandas, gifts of Madame Chiang Kaishek, en route to the U.S. Their magnificent wedding presents from Chinese officials-red satin embroidered blankets, silver filigree china, Tao silver and bamboo vases-went up in smoke a week later when Manila fell...
...apiece, a dozen crepe-de-chine-and-lace drawers, worth $18 to $25 each, a pair of silk bloomers worth $15 to $18, "one dozen most exquisitely embroidered satin step-ins" worth $18 to $40 apiece, other costly mentionables...
From flowered arbors came soft laughter and then the swirl and rustle of silk and satin as Brazilian debutantes swayed to the congas and rumbas of a red-coated samba band. Mothers and grandmothers danced, too. Ruiz Guiñazú's strict Argentine social code frowns on such informality. But he watched. Occasionally he tapped his foot, and smiled...