Word: tiara
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week of grand opera. Previous successes have induced the Association to remain here for ten days this year, presenting a total of twelve performances. This evening is the opening night and it is expected that many a top hat is being dusted off for the occasion, and many a tiara removed from its safe deposit...
...given at Manhattan's Central Park Casino by Mrs. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann Magraw, one-time actress (Up in Mabel's Room}. Mrs. Magraw found, however, that she could sell only two $100 tickets, to herself and her husband. So she refused to wear her tiara, did not use her gold plates, filled her table at $7.50 a head. The first Presidential birthday ball (1934) netted $1,015,000. The second (1935) netted $1,071,000. The third last week was expected to net anywhere up to $1,500,000. In fine fettle therefore...
...Rockefeller children-Abby, John D. Ill, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, David-have been brought up with Spartan simplicity and considerably less pocket money than most of their classmates. Mrs. Rockefeller has never bothered to own a diamond tiara or a box at the opera. She likes to do her own shopping, and she does most of it on foot...
...from the Throne, seemed to rather hope he would. Instead the Babe proved himself a Bessborough, did nothing, said nothing, with dignity. Lady Bessborough, gowned by Maggy Rouff in blue and silver lame. made an able substitute Queen Mary, her throat roped with pearls, her head regally supporting a tiara. In legal fiction the Governor General became "the actual person of the King in Canada" when he took the gilded Throne, attended by handsome young Court pages who seated themselves gracefully upon the dais...
...second State function of the season, a reception for the 550 members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember when the Senator...