Word: velvet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first crack of a 21-gun salute greeted the princess when she appeared in the doorway. She wore a slate-blue dress, matching velvet hat, mink jacket and black laced, high-heeled shoes (the first of many expected fashion hints). Followed by Prince Philip, in a Royal Navy lieutenant commander's uniform, she walked down the steep steps to be greeted by Viscount Alexander and Prime Minister Louis St.-Laurent. Smiling, wholly composed, Elizabeth quickly reviewed an R.C.A.F. honor guard, then with her husband boarded a black Chrysler convertible which swung slowly past the cheering crowd to a special...
...firm's $10 million collection, heretofore seen only by customers with a million-dollar gleam in their eyes, will be on rotating display downstairs, where anyone with bus fare can come in and look it over. Customers who mean business will still be shown upstairs to velvet-hung rooms where they can look more meaningly...
Last week sleek yachts bobbed at anchor in Venice's lagoon as the guests arrived, accompanied by a swarm of reporters, rubbernecks and still hopeful last-minute invitation seekers. Cinemactress Irene Dunne, arriving by air to attend the Venetian film festival, came ready with a special red velvet costume, just in case. It took the best efforts of Hollywood pressagentry to wangle her an invitation just an hour before the party began. Perle Mesta, reputedly bidless, told reporters firmly: "I want it understood that I am not going...
Burgundy is just a good red wine nowadays, but 500 years ago it was Europe's richest dukedom, spilling from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last week a sparkling display of the things they bought drew 11,000 visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The armor, jewelry, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, furniture, banners and polychromed sculptures on show reflect one of the most sumptuous eras of all time...
...difficile. This was translated by him literally as: "Nothing is difficult to the brave"-and by the Whigs as: "The impudence of some men sticks at nothing." Even the Tories wondered what they had gotten hold of when "that damned bumptious Jew boy" invaded their circles "in a black velvet coat lined with satin, purple trousers with a gold band . . . scarlet waistcoat, long lace ruffles . . . white gloves with jeweled rings outside them . . . well-oiled black ringlets touching his shoulders...