Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Georgia O'Ramey, 41, musical comedy funnywoman, (The Velvet Lady, No No Nanette etc.); two hours before the opening performance of Nize Girl, in which she had a leading role; of heart disease ; in New Haven...
...river that slides down through a quiet country where the hills are piled up like velvet pillows, past the quick glittering chaos of Manhattan, into the quiet Atlantic. Up this river the Captain sailed, hoping to find the splendor of China and a western ocean beyond some twist of a valley in those small and comfortable mountains...
...Lord Mayor was ceremoniously upheld. The royal carriage stopped for a moment just outside the site of the ancient City Wall?indicated last week by a red silken cord. Pompously My Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Albert Batho, approached, clad in his robes of ermine and crimson velvet, heavy with his golden chains of office. Respectfully yet proudly he tendered to His Majesty the Sword & Keys of the City. Graciously George V touched both, symbolizing that he accepted the permission to enter accorded by the Lord Mayor...
Heeney-Delaney. Flashy Jack Delaney wears a bathrobe made of violet velvet. He is an open classic boxer, a French Canadian, a former world's light-heavyweight champion. He lives in Bridgeport, Conn. Last week in Manhattan he threw his fast left upper cut again and again onto the chin of Thomas Heeney of New Zealand. Heeney shook off the jabs, bored in. Jack Delaney danced and backed up, ducked, countered, danced and backed up. He couldn't get his right past Heeney's high left shoulder. Often he clinched. Heeney got the decision, Delaney the applause...
...Into the stodgiest period of English history minced "Dizzy," "in a coat of black velvet, poppy-colored trousers broidered with gold, a scarlet waistcoat, sparkling rings worn on top of white kid gloves." In decent black, Gladstone strode opposite?half-concealing his metaphysical doubts behind a truly British sense of duty. "At Oxford the young men drank less in 1840 because Gladstone had been...