Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...velvet glove of diplomacy is empty unless a firm fist can be felt beneath it. Last week J. Stalin showed Russia's fist as well as her finesse. For several days Moscow was the undisputed diplomatic capital of Europe. It was a Mecca to which diplomats either made pilgrimages or salaamed. The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Turkey and Estonia all trotted to the Kremlin. Great Britain discussed whether she ought to send David Lloyd George there, and Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria were all on the point of dispatching top flight statesmen eastward. In Sofia, Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, than...
...caught on, and the Paris openings last month brought worse news to hairdressers. The simple snood-which caught back hair in a mesh bag-had been developed into what was called "back interest." The 1939 snood, balancing front-tipped hats, almost completely encased the hair in fabric-jersey, velvet, grosgrain-nullifying the hairdressers...
...worked overtime. One super-diligent engineer stayed on the job for 48 hours straight following Hitler's epochal Reichstag speech. Someone finally made him go home. When he had been asleep only an hour, his telephone rang. "This," said a velvet voice, "is the Crossley radio survey. Will you tell me what program you have been listening...
When an 88-pound meteorite thunked into Negro Farmer Dan Solomon's best field on the night of July 11, Dr. Luke Smith bustled out from nearby Chatham, bought it for $4. It was jet black and "smooth as velvet" on one side, heavily "thumb-marked" on the other. Soon he had a score of offers for it-$200 from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come...
...vitae ball (weighted on one side to give it bias), the object of the game is to throw the ball (called "bowl") down a narrow green to land as close as possible to a previously thrown white ball (called "jack"). Although most good lawn bowlers play at clubs where velvet smooth greens have been coddled for years, many a rip-roaring bowling match has taken place on a private lawn. Scoring is similar to that of horseshoes. Sets (four pairs of bowls and two jacks) range in price from...