Word: velveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Please Shut Up!" The off-hour activities were almost as arduous as the business sessions. Bellboys rushed velvet, satin or brocade evening gowns to & from the cleaners (average tip: 10?); elevator operators coped with breathless indecision. There was a barn dance and a moonlight boat ride to Waukegan...
...Como on radio's Chesterfield Supper Club. Soon she was rated the most-listened-to female vocalist and was the most frequently photographed sweater girl in radio. Her recording of Symphony sold 500,000 records. Her 1945 income: $125,000. She now tops all popular girl singers but velvet-voiced, $250,000-a-year Dinah Shore...
...16th Century Jesuit crossed the Channel in high spirits and in the gallant disguise-according to later charges-of "a velvet hat and a feather, a buff leather jerkin and velvet Venetians." For a full year Campion rode up & down the English counties, eluding the Queen's men, saying Mass in secret in Catholic houses. The Jesuits, Waugh says, "came with gaiety among a people where hope was dead...
Gossips linked lean, nervous Gerard MacBryan, the Raja's private secretary, to the deal. MacBryan, who calls himself a, Socialist, lives in a London flat decorated with cerise velvet curtains, hidden lighting and deep-cushioned upholstery. He was present at the Ranee's Giro party...
When she comes on stage, she looks like a nice, terribly shy girl in a long white gown. After a moment's pause and a demure curtsy, she suddenly chases the announcer, swings on the velvet curtain, howls a snatch of some unrefined ditty, walks on the side of her heels, pops her teeth and straddles the mike. Radio audiences miss much of this, but if television is just around the corner, Cass Daley's success has hardly begun...