Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...
...they had left town at eight o'clock. Nancy [Astor] arrived in the midst of it, and kissed the General affectionately and said: "Do let's dance; you are the best dancer in the American Army." We dressed the degree people up in scarlet gowns and velvet hats, and all went down in cars; Wanda had a seat with me. It was really a wonderful sight. Lord Curzon was gorgeous. The Prince did not come, but the degree was given in absentia. Pershing had a splendid reception, as did Mr. Hoover; but Haig was the hero, I never...
...night, bans on public and private dances and on hotels and restaurants not licensed by the Vice-Chancellor, "gating"* and fining for offenses. He wrote of the pitfall of idling that gapes for "men who lack pronounced will power and pertinacity." He wrote of Oxford's unwholesome, antisocial, velvet-suited, rose-carrying, pseudo-aesthetes, and of the brilliant, insincere, stimulating, dangerous-to-the-guileless-American Oxford conversationalists...
...Beside the wonder and the transport of the music stood the wonder and the possession of the performance. Two choirs, three hundred strong, of young voices fresh-timbred, full-throated, plastic, susceptible: sopranos of luster, altos velvet-piled, the striding richness of basses, the bright ascent of tenors. Two choirs schooled also in the usual and the exceptional virtues of choral singing; then practised in this music, every accent and modulation, every gradient and climax, had become a free, full speech...
...Cathedral done over in red velvet...