Word: velveted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preferred the sidewalk shows at which Sunday painters sold their pictures for three or four francs apiece. Something told Bombois he could do as well; he tried, and found he could do better. When the dealers brought Bombois' work in off the curb and started selling it against velvet-draped gallery walls, he figured he was ready to set up as a full-time artist...
...only extraverted thing about Yeats is his clothes. Sixtyish, he generally appears in a grey suit with velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
...Members of the National Funeral Directors Association met in Boston for their 66th annual convention. Some exhibits of new equipment for the trade: the "Jewel Box" ("a gem of a casket") with a semicircular peephole and well-padded velvet and satin interior; the "Blickens 4 in 1 Positioner," an elaborate arrangement of clamps and bars for forcing a rigid body into a suitable position of repose...
...Velvet Fog. Delicate Mel Tormé, known to his claque of feminine fans as the "Velvet Fog," is the boy with the butterscotch voice. At 21, Stylist Tormé attributes his intimate whispers to a second growth of tonsils and a solid knowledge of music (rare, in a crooner...
...ways. She would roam through back-country towns in her black Hupmobile, stopping at every antique shop and every likely-looking old house to ask permission to poke about a spell. She cared not a jot for antique furniture; what she wanted were old portrait paintings, still-lifes on velvet, birth certificates with watercolor designs around the edges, rusty weathervanes and peeling figureheads...