Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...MUSIC BEGINS PLAYING LIVELY MARCH HOUSELIGHTS GO OUT ONLY BLACK VELVET CURTAINS ILLUMINATED STOP MEGAPHONES ANNOUNCE MISS GERMANY WILL FIRST APPEAR STOP BAND THIRTY MUSICIANS STOPS OVERTURE STOP PAUSE THREE MINUTES FOLLOWS ALL FOOTLIGHTS TURNED...
...Marshals Foch and Fayolle are dead. Remaining of the Marshals of France are: Joseph (Battle of the Marne) Joffre, Henri (Verdun) Petain, Hubert (North Africa) Lyauty, Louis (Balkans) Franchet d'Esperey. None of these is a young man. It will not be long before the last blue-velvet, gold-starred baton disappears from France's parade grounds. Sentimental, the Paris press mourned last week the passing of a rank which goes back to the 12th Century, which has been prefixed to the names of famed Murat, Turenne, Ney. Practical, Government officials pointed out that the title of Marshal...
...page letter, mostly about the sea and love. Soon he had much more to write to her about, for in Havana he heard many a story, many a scandal about President Machado's administration. Among the authentic stories were: The General governs with iron-hand-in-velvet-glove. Latin-Americans want a decisive personality at their head. They speedily take advantage of any of an executive's weaknesses. President Machado brooks no political opposition and has logrolled Cuba's political parties to his own support. Political opponents are told to get out of Cuba. Hence the presence...
...lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved to a 14-room apartment on Park Avenue, Manhattan...
Only for the most feminine of ladies is the velvet-hung bedroom by John Well-born Root of Chicago. Peach-rose, grey and silver are the dominant shades. A mirror, framed with willowy figures in black and white etched glass, is lighted indirectly from behind. Visitors are captivated by the semicircular pewter dressing table and swivel chair for the convenient or pensive rotation of the owner...