Word: svelte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently profaned in the usual way, the Sacred Flame of Belgium seemed to His Majesty so thoroughly polluted that he decreed a national ceremony for its purification. Present to assist grave, scandalized King Albert last week were petite intellectual Queen Elizabeth, tousle-headed, schoolboyish Crown Prince Leopold, his svelt, sophisticated wife Crown Princess Astrid,* and his softspoken, softer-eyed sister Princess Marie José (Jan. 8, 1930, was announced last week as the day she will wed Italy's mincing-mannered but courageous Crown Prince Umberto [TIME...
Lovely Lady. For those who like Edna Leedom this is valid fun. Miss Leedom is blonde, slightly tough and in earnest. She has been in many a vast revue and is, no doubt, widely revered. Herein she plays a U. S. miss at large in France. She, pursuing a svelt and penniless French nobleman, is pursued by an atrocious English nobleman. A group of clockwork dancing girls do steadily astonishing things. There is a bed room. Of the French nobleman it is said that had Elinor Glyn seen him before she wrote It the book's title would have...
...announced that she would conduct the last Saturday matinee of its Manhattan engagement. But soon they bickered. Conductor Leginska wished to lead not one but four performances. The San Carlo rebelled-and at the scheduled Butterfly the audience watched the serviceable back of Carlo Peroni instead of the svelt velvet jacket and flyaway head of Leginska...
...This," when inspected, appeared superficially to be only a photograph of a svelt and alluring "redheaded vamp." Alas, her shoulders were a thought too broad, her hips a shade too neat! She was none other than Edward of Wales, snapped en costume while appearing in The Bathroom Door, a farce produced aboard the cruiser Repulse just before she docked at Portsmouth (TIME, Oct. 26) and returned the Prince from his South American tour...
...process, she unfortunately falls in love with the svelt bachelor who has been clogging her daughter's moral passages with cocktails. The bachelor is further complicated by a somewhat inexpensive lady, who is also tangled into the husband's past. The whole combination assembles and there follow two acts...