Word: satin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearts and flowers are taking second place to skulls and daggers on valentine cards this year, Square merchants reported yesterday. Billet-doux featuring miniature nooses are replacing the lace and satin affairs of times past...
Died. Natalie Satin Rachmaninoff, 70, widow of the late pianist-composer; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
George Orwell had the gift of honesty as other writers have the gift of the satin phrase. His literary mark was his own: he sniped at all kinds of intellectual cant, loved personal freedom with an irascible passion, felt himself tied to ordinary people by strong memories of plebeian discomfort, and wrote in a style as bare and sharp as a winter tree...
...Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked her 67-day-old best in a satin and lace gown handed down by her great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria...
...white satin suit was ready, and his playmates were all talking about their own first communions in the Roman Catholic Church, the next day; but six-year-old Benito Corvillon persuaded his mother that he simply couldn't go through with it. That, 29-year-old Benito now believes, began a career that has since shocked a number of his fellow Spaniards...