Word: velvet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Painted in lace jabots, powdered wigs and colorful velvet jackets, the 52 on display at the Tate looked boyishly innocent, boyishly arrogant. Their number included four future First Lords of the Treasury, and 21 future earls and dukes. One of history's most famed old Etonians, William Ewart Gladstone, was not present; he was not enough of a standout at Eton. Among those who were...
...laborers and porters. An enterprising brewer put out an even stronger beer called "stout porter." In Ireland, only the visitor asks for "Guinness." Irishmen simply ask for "a pint" when ordering Guinness stout. At Dublin's Dolphin Hotel, the "quality" mix their Guinness with champagne in a "black velvet" (which was also Bismarck's favorite drink...
...next eleven minutes he handled all questions with the same deliberate care, and the conference went off without a hitch. That night the President, in his old single-breasted tuxedo, and Bess, resplendent in black velvet, had the time of their lives at a fund-raising show for the newly revived U.S.O. at Constitution Hall. Onstage, Cabinet officers, military brass, Congressmen and local society bigwigs wisecracked, caterwauled, sawed away on their fiddles, square-danced, and performed a frantic Charleston, complete with short skirts and rolled stockings...
...Beaver & Velvet. To anyone who had watched the death of Nanking in 1949, the death of Seoul was a familiar tale: the empty streets, the one or two deserted trolleys that rocked forlornly along the main stem, the last tired oxen plodding patiently southward, were all sharply reminiscent of similar scenes in China. At week's end the wealthy, who could afford to wait until the last minute, were packing up to get out. In front of upper-class Korean houses and stores, merchants in beaver-collared coats supervised the loading of their more valued belongings. A beautiful girl...
...society chatter which Novelist Bagnold has felt obliged to record. The Loved and Envied scatters its effect among too many characters, and despite a glossy prose surface often succumbs to lip-trembling sentimentality. Not all the wealthy, fading beauties in Novelist Bagnold's France are worth one little Velvet Brown...