Word: velvets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...public without discrimination at a 20 pfennig fare (5c). Many a proletarian grumbled because the onetime third-class fare had been only 15 pfennigs. Many an aristocrat was vexed to be crowded into third-class cars with wooden benches, while pushful workingmen reclined on first-class red velvet. All, however, were elated with civic pride at another feature of the new service: the one-class fare ticket is valid not only on the subway but permits transfer to busses, street cars-at no extra cost...
...Nizam of Hyderabad, an Indian prince who is freed from the cares of state by the industry of his executive council, has decided not to hide his poetic talents under the Indian equivalent of a bushel. He has issued his verse in a special velvet-bound edition which all good subjects will buy, at $55 the copy. The Nizam, who knows a thing or two about this business of ruling after all, thinks that under these conditions his verse may help to balance the budget of Hyderabad...
...square whitewashed room, brooded over by a death-white plaster bust of Lenin, the toys were laid out on a long table covered with black velvet. Guards stood about, their uniforms utterly without pockets and buttoned tightly at the knees and wrists. As the correspondents filed in, a train 18 inches long was whirring around the table...
...Where can I get gold for all this currency of the Confederate States of America?" was his first question. But Jacob Dreicer had another recourse for livelihood. On the inside of his innermost shirt he had sewed little velvet sacks, and each little velvet sack held a pearl. He knew pearls and emeralds, rubies and sapphires. In a way he knew diamonds too, but he did not like them, least of all when he saw them wired on the stomacher of the Manhattan dame of a Civil War profiteer. And he did love pearls; liked to caress them against...
...been the most phenomenal, many people recall when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing is noted for its rare melodious and technically flawless musicianship...