Word: silver
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gann, no talker in Society, heard those about him discuss the Junoesque lady in a silver lace dress seated so grandly at the right hand of the diminutive Ambassador Davila at one end of the table. This was embarrassing for Mr. Gann because the lady in question was his own wife. In the other direction, all bathed and shaved and shining in his evening clothes, beside Señor Davila, was Mrs. Gann's brother. Vice President Charles Curtis, upon being whose official hostess Mrs. Gann had long been. bent. This dinner represented the final triumph...
...dieu!" cried Madame La Maréchale as she saw the half open front door and rushed frantically within. The house had been ransacked. Silver, jewelry and securities to the value of 50,000 francs were gone-not much in the U. S., scarcely $2,000, but much to grizzled Joseph Joffre. When excited gendarmes came, the Marshal, no longer his fat self of younger days but very thin and trembly, exclaimed, "Whoever burglarized my house was no Frenchman. That, I could not believe...
Only for the most feminine of ladies is the velvet-hung bedroom by John Well-born Root of Chicago. Peach-rose, grey and silver are the dominant shades. A mirror, framed with willowy figures in black and white etched glass, is lighted indirectly from behind. Visitors are captivated by the semicircular pewter dressing table and swivel chair for the convenient or pensive rotation of the owner...
...digress no longer, "The Silver Swan" is first-rate musical entertainment. It is the only commendable "operetta" we have seen in several moons. It has much better than average singing, catching tunes, and a pleasant eyeful of costumes and sets. The humor is well carried off by Florenz Ames, assisted from time to time by the above-mentioned Mr. Woods. As the leading lady Myrtle Clark is all that could be desired...
...change from straight musical comedy a piece of this sort is most refreshing. Particularly it is so, after the countless disappointments brought by "Student Prince" imitations and such. Colorful, gay, and above all tunefully refreshing. "The Silver Swan" takes its place well up in the ranks of worth-while musical entertainment...