Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acoustics engineers were called in, deadened the echoes by hanging crimson velvet curtains between each of the columns. This shut out so much light that the Justices found they could not see to read. Elaborate chandeliers were dropped from the ceiling. They shone in the Justices' eyes. Finally a set of nine bronze desk lamps was installed on the bench itself. Greatly irked. Associate Justice Brandeis refused to accept one. plunked down in front of him a battered, goose-necked student lamp...
Downhill and cross country events will be held Friday. In the downhill the new Velvet Rocks Trail in Hanover will be used...
Jiggling atop a velvet cushion on the bier of King George, there passed through the streets of London last week, The Crown-with its 309 carat diamond, one of the "Stars of Africa"; its ruby big as a hen's egg from the Crown of Edward the Black Prince: the Stuart Sapphire from the Crown of Charles II: the pearl eardrops of Queen Elizabeth: the sapphire Edward the Confessor wore in his Coronation Ring. Great officials of the Kingdom were in utmost consternation when they noticed belatedly that The Crown's topping of a Maltese cross set with...
...light, all glass would be invisible. But glass is not perfectly transparent. Some of the light rays which strike it are reflected back to the eye of the observer. Invisible glass is curved in such a way that the reflected light is sent upwards and downwards into black velvet pads which completely absorb it. Since no light gets back to the observer, the glass cannot be seen. The invisible glass system now in use was developed in England by E. Pollard & Co. Its U. S. patents are held by Invisible Glass Co. of America, of which Libbey-Owens-Ford...
Dining with Queen Mary, her sons and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the royal doctors wore full court dress, gold buttons with the royal crest gleaming on their tail coats above their velvet knee breeches, silk stockings and glistening pumps. A little later His Majesty was found to be beyond hope. With streaming eyes, the Queen and her sons stood at the bedside as George V expired in coma. Turning to the eldest son, Lord Dawson of Penn solemnly made the historic change known. "Your Majesty," he said, "your father is dead...