Word: velveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, old Jim Horner, in his house at Merthyr, is sticking up for his son. Last week, putting his worn velvet slippers carefully on the blacklead fender before the fireplace, he declared stoutly: "They've had our Arthur in prison four times-but he never did do anything wrong...
Prominently displayed in the gallery window were three rubber female breasts, mounted on velvet. Any knowledgeable Parisian recognized the signs immediately: the Surrealists were back. Up the 21 steps-which 1,500 curious Parisians climbed on the opening day-was Surrealism's first international show since...
Tall, ash-blonde, Vassar-grad Letitia Baldridge, daughter of Nebraska's ex-Congressman Malcolm Baldridge, was worried. Rain (always a possibility in London) would absolutely ruin her navy blue straw with velvet ribbons and the grey silk print she had bought in Paris. Then, too, there was the devastating possibility that a member of the Royal Family might speak to her. "I just hope to goodness," said Tish, "that I haven't a plate of food in my hand if I have to curtsy...
...beaver. Miss Tierney wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini; her acting is neither better nor worse than usual. Edna Best is skilled and sweet as her maid, and George Sanders obviously enjoys playing a ninny, for a change, instead of the velvet scourge of womankind...
...train from Montreal at New York's Grand Central Station last week and asked, "How are the Pittsburgh Pirates doing?" What made the question a little surprising was that this Pirate fan -six feet tall, handsome and ebony black -wore a long white velvet gown which, when it flapped, revealed a startling blue-and-white-checked undergarment and a pair of tan brogues. He is the leader of millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away...