Word: velvet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa's toy factory for the city's youngsters. At Detroit's J. L. Hudson Co., a delightful doll named Christmas Carol clutched a candy-striped Teddy bear on her visit to the North Pole. In other cities, there were kitchen angels busily preparing yuletide feasts, velvet and lace dolls in 1890 snowscapes, rosy-cheeked children scribbling letters to Santa, handsome windows showing Dickens' Christmas Carol, with lifelike figures of Tiny Tim, Bob Cratchit and Old Scrooge...
Pius entered the basilica, under a velvet and damask canopy, while the choir sang the triumphant Tu es Petrus. Then, with members of a Catholic Action youth group, he recited the prayer he wrote for the Marian Year: "Enraptured by the splendor of your heavenly beauty, and impelled by the anxieties of the world, we cast ourselves into your arms, O Immaculate Mother of Jesus . . . Bend tenderly over our aching wounds. Convert the wicked, dry the tears of the afflicted and oppressed, comfort the poor and humble, quench hatreds, sweeten harshness, safeguard the flower of purity in youth, protect...
...slowly marched 80,000 Turks, including the President, the Premier, every Cabinet minister, every parliamentary deputy, every provincial governor and every foreign diplomat. Many of the 7,000 marching Turkish soldiers wore their Korean war decorations. Ten generals and two admirals escorted the coffin, while another admiral guarded a velvet cushion which bore the Medal of Independence, the only decoration Ataturk ever wore...
...Used for cuffs, collars or buttons, camel color with mink trim leads the field, with rabbit hair, angora and black fox following. Most of these are detachable and can be switched from outfit to outfit. Such an outfit is considered just as chic as a favorite black taffeta or velvet...
...difficult it is to breathe through, particularly in the case of bronchitic patients." But London shopkeepers were quick to seize on the mask. At the end of two days, many London chemists had sold all their gauze. Mayfair milliners hastily sketched up a line of fashionable "smoggles" in tulle, velvet and chiffon to please the modish dyspneic. One dress designer announced a "bunny mask" modeled on a rabbit's nose and containing a special filter. In the murk outside the Tottenham Court tube station, one Londoner-Shipping Clerk Dennis Michaels, 24, was actually seen wearing a gauze mask. Some...