Word: tiara
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...from ice, which graced the tables, plus flocks of smaller black-metal swans dangling from trellises in the yard. While a dance band (Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey's), a rhumba outfit and an eight-woman string ensemble blared and sawed away, Marianne, all in pink with a diamond tiara, held court in a bower of pink flowers. Said she, as the new day dawned and the icy swans began to melt a bit: "If I had known it was going to be so cold, I would have had the tents draped with pink mink...
...Savoy Hotel revived two of President Eisenhower's four official U.S. representatives after the long ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Turned out in gold-braided full-dress uniform, General of the Army Omar Bradley launched into an enthusiastic off-beat rumba with Editor Fleur (Look) Cowles, whose diamond tiara was as grand as anything worn by a peeress...
...Head of Marguerite (1915) is sharp and delicate, his Large Seated Nude (1925) a study in flat, glossy planes. At the end of Tate's exhibit are his two final works: Venus in a Shell, long-legged and featureless, her arms drawn up behind her head, and Tiara, a writhing, lumpy mass of hair and head. Their date is 1930, and as far as the world knows, Matisse has never done another sculpture...
...celebrate National Hat Week, Boston businessmen last week chose a Hat Queen for 1951. In San Francisco, where Miss Pacific Purchaser was already reigning, wine producers crowned a National Vintage Queen. In Dallas, a Macaroni Queen was crowned with a tiara of dry macaroni, and the Texas Rice Promotion Association named a Rice Queen, whose first proclamation from the throne was: "I just love to eat rice, I really do." Others currently receiving the royal treatment: Miss Freight Forwarder...
...Ninotchkas" is the satirical story of three old-style Bolshevik diplomats who go to Paris to sell a diamond tiara and necklace so that the Moscow government can buy much-needed farm machinery. When Moscow hears of their failure, a more efficient agent is sent-Greta Garbon, Envoy Extraordinary...