Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sheehan, a lonely man, happy-Christmas cards from his good friends King Carol of Rumania, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mother Elisabeth of the Belgians, Alfonso of Spain; autographed photographs of Elisabeth, Alfonso, many a notable in government and medicine:* decorations from Belgium, France, Spain, Rumania. Fastened to red velvet and framed in gold is the "original key used by the ex-Emperor of Germany during his sojourn in France at the Hotel du Nord, Charleville...
...small blue velvet jewel case containing lady's cameo ring set in white gold square, basket style
...National Velvet" is the May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club (with Road to War, by Walter Millis-to be reviewed next week...
...NATIONAL VELVET"-Enid Bagnold- Morrow...
...girls, however gallant, do not ride in the Grand National at Aintree. Each of these unlikely happenings occurs in Author Bagnold's "National Velvet," but so compelling is the wave of her magic wand that the surliest realist will nod and grin approval. Nor should hippophobes shrink away; though the story reeks of horses it is not horsy. Humorous, charming, "National Velvet" is a little masterpiece of English sentiment. Velvet was 14, going on 15, and looked "like Dante when he was a little girl." She was skinny, and wore a painful plate for her buck teeth. Her three...