Word: velours
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Brisson was a sensation abroad for years, but he has never before scored in the U.S. Although his voice has velour on its chest, he is in no sense effete. Born Carl Petersen in Copenhagen, he stepped into the fight ring as a boy, rose to be "cruiserweight" champion of Europe. He stands 6 ft. 1½ in., weighs 178 lb., has a leonine head. His motion as well as his music gets them. He climbs casually all over the nightclub furniture, sings on his feet, on the back of a chair, on a table, on a customer...
Radicals and Radical-Socialists have an unofficial uniform in France: a soft black felt hat. The type of hat is left to the fancy of the wearer. M. Herriot wears a rather dumpy velour. Until he became Premier in January Edouard Daladier wore a romantic fedora. His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg...
...busses may be the last word in transportation and they may have cozy seats of plush velour, but a terminal on the Island of Manhattan is still the thing. People wondered whether the officials of the B. & O. and Pennsylvania R. R. had ceased to be friends, whether the B. & O. would retaliate for being ousted from the Pennsylvania Station by running faster trains from Washington to Chicago than the Pennsylvania could possibly schedule (because of its longer and more curved route...
...much could not be said of the galleries, crowded with "official ladies." There was Mrs. Coolidge in henna-colored dress and hat, with a coat of cocoa-colored velour, trimmed with fur. In another part was Mrs. Wood-row Wilson, gowned in black, with orchids at her waist. There were wives of seven or eight members of the Cabinet; also Miss Ailsa Mellon, representing her father. There was Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Republican Floor Leader...
...sell sentiment-not in Washington," shouted a perspiring auctioneer as he knocked down for only $45 a mahogany sofa, two armchairs and one other chair-all upholstered in velour. He was conductting the sale of the furniture of 2314 Wyoming Ave., Washington, D. C., formerly the home of Senator Warren G. Harding, of Ohio. The furnished house was sold by the late President and recently resold, which caused the auction of the furniture. The prices paid for Mr. Harding's belongings were commensurate with their intrinsic rather than sentimental value...