Word: satin
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...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
Last week Chao Kung turned up in Victoria, B. C. Canadian officials offered no nonsense. Apparently well supplied with money, dressed in a black satin robe and accompanied by ten male and female Buddhists, Chao Kung said: "I want to be friends with the British and the world in general." He announced he would cross the continent, deliver some lectures, proceed to Germany. He explained that (like Locanatha Bhikkhu) he is a vegetarian. "It is not that we believe in unnecessarily castigating the body, but we believe the mind works better if the body is fed less. Buddhism demands precise...
...Brahms: White satin court dress trimmed with big bunches of grapes, a necklace of diamonds the size of malagas, vine-leaves in the hair...
...heels of this dinner the President and Mrs. Roosevelt held their first state reception for the diplomatic corps. The President and First Lady (in cream brocade) greeted the Cabinet headed by Secretary of War and Mrs. Dern (pale grey satin)-Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins (black velvet) arrived late-and passed into the Blue Room to "receive." Instead of assembling on the stairs and marching counterclockwise (according to precedent) through the first floor, the guests started from the East Room, marched clockwise to the Blue Room. Head of the procession was Dean of the Diplomatic Corps Ahmet Muhtar, Turkish Ambassador...
Next precedent broken occurred when, after receiving the Congressional delegation including Speaker and Mrs. Rainey (blue satin), Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom (violet blue crushed velvet) et al., the President retired upstairs. Mrs. Roosevelt, unlike other First Ladies, remained behind to watch the dancing. Instead of giving the guests ice water for refreshments, the Roosevelts had fruit punch and cake served in the State Dining Room...