Word: tableclothes
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...served. For the occasion Mrs. Watriss hired two photographers-one to take official photographs, the other to stand at the door and keep out newscameramen who might try to crash the party. At 4:30 a. m. Brenda ended her rhumba dancing and sat down to chat with a tablecloth around her shoulders...
...January dinner of the exclusive New York Gourmet Society, during a silence after applause, Emily Post (Etiquette) spilled a spoonful of Swedish lingonberries on the tablecloth. Calmly she said: "People generally think I'm made of tin, a sort of mechanical robot...
...late Andrew Carnegie posterity owes the Carnegie Foundation, a corporate angel to education, and the Carnegie Institute, an international showcase of the arts. It also owes an illustrious tablecloth which went on view last week at the Museum of the City of New York. As far back as 1887 it had been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root...
...Paul & Margaritas had to move into a friend's house in Athens this week, before starting on their wedding trip; from His Majesty's Cabinet & Armed Forces a $10,000 emerald & diamond necklace; from the Greek Royal Yacht Club a yacht; from the President of France a tablecloth; from the Duke & Duchess of Windsor a gift (nature undisclosed) explained by announcing that "the Duke was an old friend of Prince Paul...
...would be possible to construct a table which would have exactly the same form. In a dining room such a table would not be useful; in a decorative painting its form may be. For the same reason Braque's colors, from the vivid yellow triangle of the tablecloth through the reddish brown of the wickerwork basket, the darker red of the shadow form at the right of the table, the grey-blues and green-blues of the structural background, are an improvement on the colors light would make in an ordinary room. To painters, Braque's stucco-textured...