Word: velveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deep Sea. Since the Allies had made clear that they must have Italy as a base against Germany, the Badoglio Government faced an almost impossible situation. How could it keep Italy from becoming a battlefield? The Rome radio complained: "Fascism has fallen. What have [the Allies] offered Italy? . . . The velvet glove over the iron fist of unconditional surrender. . . . Our peace could be nothing but a continuance of war, with us or without us or over...
...Drapery, upholstery fabrics (simulating velvet, plush, mohair), shower curtains, slip covers, window screens...
...just as I remembered it. Nothing was changed. ... In the library, a light flashed on. ... I knew my mother was standing at the top of the stairs in her kitten's-ear broadcloth with the long train, the diamond butterfly from Tiffany's sparkling at the black-velvet ribbon around her throat. . . . But I couldn't see her for the mist in my eyes...
...great Victorian illustrators, 85-year-old Reginald Bathurst Birch, illustrator of Little Lord Fauntleroy. The courtly bon vivant of the '80s, half-blind and broke, had no complaints except against Fauntleroy. It was "about the worst thing that ever happened to me," he said. The lace-and-velvet wrapped little hero's fame had obscured everything else the artist had done. At present, he admitted, "you can say that I'm just a little hors de combat...
...beat down on the chamber as the Senate and the Supreme Court straggled in. Suddenly, in the President's gallery over the Speaker's rostrum, a door opened and two figures appeared. The woman, taut-faced and slender, was dressed in a dark blue suit, tiny black velvet hat perched well back on her head. The man, in suit, shirt and tie of matching grey, was deeply tanned under his blond hair. Every eye in the chamber watched as they walked to their seats. Then, as one man, Congress and Supreme Court rose, saluted the Duke and Duchess...