Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrounded herself with cockatoos and basked in vanity. The careers of Garden, Farrar and Jeritza have been bright with jewels, racy with escapades. But Lotte Lehmann is just a singer. Her childhood in Perleberg, Germany, was plain. She remembers red plush furniture, a feeble-minded grandfather in an embroidered velvet cap, an understanding mother who on Christmas day played Santa Claus. Her father, a small-town official, was determined that his daughter should be a school-teacher because schoolteachers get pensions. Lotte Lehmann is already assured of a pension-from the proud Vienna Opera of which she is a Member...
...amazing prodigy appeared in a white dress with tucked sleeves and red velvet bows on both her shoulders.* She made her jerky little bow, hopped up on the piano stool, stretched for the pedals and sturdily began Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Her tone was clear and singing, her energy heroic as she swept into the Presto Agitato. To Mozart's A Major Sonata she brought little grace. But for most of the afternoon young Ruth was in might-&-main mood, sweeping the keyboard with glittering arpeggios, pounding out tremendous chords. Knowing that she usually likes to keep...
...President gave his second State function of the season, a reception for the 550 members of the diplomatic corps and their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember...
...When you meet men like Strauss, don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Men like him should be mussed up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar! Instead, he looks as if he had just got out of a barber's chair. I want you to understand you will be supported, no matter what you do, just so you are justified. Make it disagreeable for these men. make them leave the city, make them afraid of arrest! Don't treat them lightly...
...work and 18 unproduced animated cartoons of abstract dramas, she hired a cameraman and made Anitra's Dance in three months for $3,000 in her Manhattan apartment. To get her abstract effects, she used sheets of crumpled Cellophane, an egg-cutter, prisms, toy pyramids, ping pong balls, velvet, sparklers, bracelets and, chiefly, camera angles. Although the pyramids are intended to suggest the fact that Anitra danced in the Egyptian desert, Miss Bute objects to symbolism, claims no connection with surrealism. Says...