Word: tiaras
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...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...
...Jenkins' voice was a little tired but back she came in blue & cream satin, a rhinestone stomacher and a rhinestone tiara. Cinemen turned their cameras on her while she struggled with the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca. Last year she sang a flower song while tossing roses into the audience. In her excitement the basket slipped from her hand, hit an old gentle man on the head. Last week she repeated the flower song, pleased her friends by again hurling the basket...
...married. It took three more days of Buddhist rites behind the locked gates of the Red City to complete the ceremony. On the fourth day a battalion of mandarins led in musicians and the bearers of the royal insignia. The new Queen, her hair elaborately wound about a tiara encrusted with precious stones, received the Imperial seal and the golden book. Finally she arose and bowed her forehead to the floor three times, in the traditional Chinese kowtow (pronounced ker-toe) of thanks...
...since anything has cheered one quite as much as the news that Joseph E. Widener-'Mister' Widener, as we intimates call him around the horse parks-has been entertaining the Earl and Countess of Athlone at Palm Beach. Mister Widener is as plain as an old diamond tiara and as Democratic as the Mikado himself...
...Beethoven and Mozart: Billowy black taffeta covered with net, coral jewels, a tiara transformation...