Word: velveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week part of the Schloss collection was on the move again. It was up for auction at the Galerie Charpentier in Paris, in the biggest art sale held in Europe since the war. Nearly an hour before the auctioning began, every little gilt chair in the great, red-velvet-draped gallery had been occupied. Bearded boulevardiers and ladies in fox furs vied for seats with dapper, sharp-eyed dealers from, far & near...
...first visit to the United States, he disgusted Washington Irving with his coarse "tavern manners." He shocked Boston with his foppish "velvet waistcoats of vivid green or brilliant crimson" and his lowbred way of breezily combing his long tresses during a dinner given in his honor. At one such function he was asked which of two countrywomen of his was the more beautiful, the Duchess of Sutherland or Mrs. Caroline Norton, and put the whole Eastern seaboard into deep freeze by replying airily: "Well, I don't know. Mrs. Norton is perhaps the more beautiful, but the Duchess...
...Oscar Wagner, onetime dean of the Juilliard Graduate School, who went to Los Angeles to help, put White's idea into whole tones: "The day is gone when all a fellow needed was a little talent, a velvet collar and long hair. Now he must have a more versatile education and that's what we're working toward...
...dining room of Lowell House was transformed into the great hall of a Georgian palace last night, and in it I spent one of the most delightful evenings I can remember. The crystal chandeliers shone down on powdered wigs, hoop skirts, and velvet-coats, as the Lowell House Musical Society revived Handel's pastoral opera, "Acis and Galatea." Baroque chairs and cabinets had replaced the High Table, and behind them hung an elaborate tapestry of the best Watteau variety. Two red canopies and scattered Georgian pilasters completed the picture...
Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, king of jazz trumpeters, went back home for a brief reign as King of the Zulus at New Orleans' Mardi Gras. Buttoned into an outlandish red velvet tunic, and brandishing a silver scepter and a fat black cigar, Satchmo began his triumphal tour at 9 in the morning. Rumbled gravel-voiced Louis as he settled himself on the throne on his gilded float: "Man, this is rich." The parade stopped before the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, and the royal party dismounted for a light lunch of turkey and ham sandwiches, pickles, olives and champagne...