Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became a dramatic critic on Manhattan's famed morning World, an intimate of all the Tonys on West 52nd Street and a bosom companion of Noel Coward. Last week the Earl of Amherst, 40, stood in a London tailor's shop wrapped in the mantle of crimson velvet and banded ermine in which he must make obeisance to his King...
...been made. A Vatican functionary detailed, in memoranda, the minimum religious acts which would be required of the Holy Father in public, and Vatican Physician Dr. Aminta Milani. unwilling to take sole responsibility, called a consultation regarding Pius XI's physical state. Vatican workers hung 50-ft. velvet curtains about the high altar of St. Peter's, erected wooden partitions on the basilica's outside balcony to cut off drafts. Within St. Peter's on Easter Sunday morning 50,000 faithful cried "Viva il Papa" when the Holy Fatrrer was borne in on his portable throne...
...Residency. No royal and ruling Indian, not even His Exalted Highness, ever escapes a British Residency, an outpost of London which makes him feel the more or less iron hand of Britain in a less or more velvet glove. In his early days as Hyderabad's ruler the present Nizam dismissed the Diwan or acting cabinet and directed affairs as his own Prime Minister for some years with such vigor that "The Residency" was often rumored pressing for his abdication. Came the War. The Nizam's $100,000,000 gift to Britain squared many things, and Sir Akbar...
...Paris last week, against a backdrop of grenadine velvet, the Bank of France staged its first meeting since Premier Blum enfranchised the Bank's 40,000 hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often...
...designer who at the age of five made her first costumes for the fairy story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, now rents out 50.000 costumes. In Northwestern University's Thome Hall. Costumologist Schmidt was introduced by President Walter Dill Scott, after her speech was presented a velvet cushion topped by a large gilt and tinsel crown...