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...Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even glossier Edwardian swank than those of John Singer Sargent. Simply by appearing in a blue velvet period gown, with a swooping hat crowned by an exotic bird and delicately moored in place by a face veil, Cornell stops the show...
...Colonel T. E. Lawrence in 1916 about the Arab war against the Turks, the canny Colonel sized him up as follows: "I began to suspect him of a constant cheerfulness. ... He jested with all comers in most easy fashion: yet, when we fell into serious talk, the veil of humor seemed to fade away as he chose his words, and argued shrewdly. ... As our conversation continued, I became more and more sure that Abdullah was too balanced, too cool, too humorous to be a prophet. . . . His value would come, perhaps, in the peace after success...
...meeting recently at Scheveningen he said: "Whoever knows anything about our people knows that we will have nothing to do with imported extremism. . . . We have shown the occupying Power that we cannot shed our national characteristics in choosing the political path we wish to follow. . . . Nobody can lift the veil of the future, but those who take the Bible and the history of the Dutch people as their guide can have confidence that The Netherlands will rise again...
Perspiring gently, the audience sat still, in some nervousness. In the front row, not grinning, was big, jug-eared Cinemactor Clark Gable, in a chalk-stripe grey suit; his wife, Carole Lombard, in a funnel-like black hat with a veil, a simple black afternoon dress; Secretary of State Cordell Hull, white-faced, as sombre as his dark suit; and the President's mother, Sara Roosevelt, in a grey-blue evening gown...
...streets of Miami. The Duchess wore a two-piece ensemble of dull navy crepe, hip-length coat and cap with feathered mercury wings. She wore her jeweled flamingo on her shoulder, diamonds on her ears. She smiled at the cheering crowds from under a nose-length, peekaboo, white-dotted veil. Her husband gaily waved...