Word: satins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt, thoroughly enjoying the sweet cider...
...field work. While Kingstonites gawped, the Divine excursionists debarked, formed a parade in which one of Father Divine's touring cars, with a stuffed white dove on the radiator cap, was preceded by mounted Negroes in berets and riding togs, followed by female "angels" in green and white satin, wearing banners blazoned "Father Divine is God." Pennons and banners carried by marchers showed that Father Divine has a POLITICAL DEPARTMENT, a RESEARCH DEPARTMENT by which "The Eyes of the Lord Runneth To and Fro Throughout the Whole Earth." Swinging music for all this was furnished by a band which...
Highlight of the exhibition was Artist Salvador Dali's living design, Phantom of Sex Appeal, for which Artist Sheila Legge solemnly glided through the crowded, stuffy gallery in a tight white satin gown, her head in a wire cage covered with pink paper rosebuds, a facsimile female leg in her hand. She had substituted the leg for a pork chop prescribed by Artist Dali...
...with a black eye. One mother bounced 880 miles from Columbus on a motorcycle. Houston women, like all good Texans of 1936, boosted their State's Centennial by wearing cowboy hats. From San Francisco arrived a team calling itself the Dr. Painless Parkers,* arrayed in jockey caps, white satin blouses, black satin pants. When these and some 1,500 other women reached Omaha three weeks ago for the 19th annual tournament of the Women's International Bowling Congress Inc., the oldest competitor, Omaha's own 67-year-old Mrs. Nevada Helen Robertson Tillson, opened play by cutting...
...original cast, Charles Winninger is again Cap'n Andy of the Cotton Blossom. Heavy-eyed, heavy-mouthed Helen Morgan is the hapless Julie, dashing in the satin flounces of an 1885 showgirl, who is forced to leave Cap'n Andy's troupe when it turns out she is a mulatto illegally married to a white man. Paul Robeson appears as the honest, lazy handyman who does little but sing 01' Man River while the camera travels from his calm black face to toiling Negroes, and finally to the broad, rippling Mississippi - in this case...