Word: tudors
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...evening dresses disclosed two silhouette trends: the slinky and the frilly. There were pencil-slim skirts, tunic-length jackets, hip draperies, towering hats, fantastic turbans, flowing Grecian folds, bows, bustles, Tudor sleeves. For day wear, there were misty Scotch tweeds in soft blues, green-greys, yellows, reds. The most fetching suit style had waist-length lapels and waistline tucks giving a blouse effect in the back...
...cleverness of Hollywood Pinafore, furthermore, is so insistently verbal that the show sadly lacks the bounce, pace, bodily movement that should go with a musical. Chained to one set, it does not even-except except for a lively Antony Tudor ballet - rattle its chains with dancing. The show boils down, in the end, to some smart lyrics, snappy lines, Victor Moore's mis cast charm, Shirley Booth's comic poise, Annamary Dickey's singing, Viola Essen's dancing - and Sullivan's delightful but rather dry-docked score...
...Harvard. She rushed to San Diego to marry him, but his orders were changed unexpectedly, and he sailed a bachelor. Now, fingering the diamond solitaire on her third finger, Bette said: "We have our house all planned. It's to be sort of brick and stone Tudor, with four bedrooms and not too close to the neighbors." Lunch hours she spends window-shopping, filling her imaginary house with imaginary furniture and knickknacks...
Refreshed by a couple of hours at the cinema, the barrel-chested, slightly bandylegged churchman rode home on a jam-packed London underground train. As he left the underground, he linked arms with his wife and strode rapidly toward the red-&-black Tudor buildings of Fulham Palace, his residence as Lord Bishop of London...
...famous cotillion leader in the salons of Florence and Paris, he boasted an ancestry that included three colonial governors, a wife who was the daughter of U.S. Senator Charles B. Farwell, Chicago dry-goods tycoon. Reggie wore a monocle from the age of 15. When he built his Tudor mansion on Manhattan's Park Ave nue between 85th and 86th Streets (it still stands), he dressed himself as Sir Walter Raleigh and gave a mammoth housewarming, serving up a boar's head on a platter...