Word: sulphur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rich materials and such new shades as "cigar brown," "seaweed rose," "shrimp pink" and "soft sulphur yellow" helped to create a tizzy of fashionmakers' incoherence. Wrote the N.E.A.'s Rosette Hargrove of one collection (by Carven): "Egyptian inspiration stressing spindled, high-bosomed princess line enhanced by encrusted boleros with contrasting yokes of mummy wrappings and circular embroideries...
...afternoon, while Gerschefski was working, a sudden summer thunderstorm came up and lightning struck the church's furnace, filling the structure with sulphur fumes. Gerschefski is not certain but what some of the lightning and sulphur remained in his composition. By summer's end the ballad was finished...
Hoffman buttonholed Lapham late last month at a meeting of the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council in White Sulphur Springs, invited him to come to work for EGA. Later Lapham talked with George Marshall and Averell Harriman. Said his son, Roger Jr.: "I don't think it took much convincing on their part. He doesn't enjoy being idle...
...White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., the Duke of Windsor also took honors of a sort. He was by far the sportiest of a sartorially splendid foursome. His competition: British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, ex-Senator Burton K. Wheeler and Railroader Robert R. Young...
Railroader Robert R. Young had something new to show off. His Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co. had paid the Government $4,000,000 for the Greenbrier Hotel in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., famed watering place for pre-Civil War Southerners and resort for U.S. Presidents (13 had slept there). It had spent another $4,200,000 refurbishing...