Word: satin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, one night last week, swept a trim, greying woman in a ruby red satin dress, with a U.S. Senator on one arm and a retired judge on the other. In the room was just about everybody who was anybody in Kansas City, and they gave a five-minute ovation to 59-year-old Dressmaker Nellie Donnelly...
Dazzle, that is, because it's going to be satin pants--black satin pants--that the football team will wear this year...
Dazzle, that is, because it's going to be satin pants--black satin pants--that the football team will wear this year...
Slowly, Anne walked through the hall on the arm of her uncle Erik Frederik Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
...statuette, known as a "silver lady," looked very much like a female Hollywood Oscar. The radiant young lady who clasped it looked, in her gown of turquoise slipper satin and black lace, like a composite photograph of Merle Oberon and Joan Bennett. For the third successive year, Margaret Lockwood last week shakily thanked British moviegoers for electing her Britain's most popular cinemactress. (John Mills, star of Great Expectations, was voted most popular cinemactor; Anna Neagle's The Courtneys of Curzon Street, the most popular film...