Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mourning procession paced the battle charger of Marshal Fayolle, with bridle down and empty boots reversed in stirrups. Ten officers followed, bearing on velvet cushions the Marshal's baton, sword and blazing decorations seemingly numberless...
...issue of August 20 states that ... McAdoo got himself up in the red and black velvet of a caballero and up onto a prancing-mare. Mare and McAdoo were chief prancers ..." and prints a picture signed by Wide World...
...Willard Mack gets his man (TIME, April 9). DIAMOND LIL-Mae West in a place which, to judge by the shape of her bed, must be a swan-dive (TIME, April 23). FUNNY BURLESQUE-The vicissitudes of vaudeville votaries (TIME, Sept. 12). THE BACHELOR FATHER-Natural children in velvet gloves, or father's day at the foundling's home (TIME, March 12). VOLPONE-Ben Jonson's farce about a miser who missed fire, modernized and improved (TIME, April 23). THE HAPPY HUSBAND-Miss Billie Burke proving that, on rare occasions, a woman can forgive her husband...
...must be President ; and let me remind you of what they have done already. They have put the cardinals' color right here in the presidential room of the capitol. The green curtains that hung there for years and years . . . have been taken down and the blood-red cardinal velvet curtains have been hung up, and they have taken the green top off of the President's desk and put a red one on that . . . some smooth-fingered Roman employee I am told has thought he would take time by the forelock...
Anna. Young love in the latin quarter is a theme both sweet and sacred for the writer of romantic plays. In this one Lou Tellegen is the Velvet Joe of sculptury and Judith Anderson is his pretty model who poses for him in the nude, who wagers that if he can marry a certain heiress she will give him her all, and who turns out, on the date of payment, to be herself none other than the rich and reckless lady...