Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...steel and micarta walls and black & white glass showcases. A huge red propeller on the Museum stoop keynoted the show. Inside was a glittering confusion of coils, springs, carpet sweepers, kettles, mirrors, ladles, automobile headlights, slide rules. In one corner a water faucet stood on a pedestal. On black velvet was a cluster of dental instruments. There was an array of tubular steel chairs, a number of suspended springs so delicate they responded to a breath...
...Chemical Separation of Diplogen from Hydrogen." Showing throughout no sign of recognizing any other nomenclature, it presaged a general British plump for the Rutherford suggestions. Meanwhile Professor Urey and the two men who helped him discover heavy hydrogen had dispatched to Nature a letter with barbs under the bland velvet of its phrasing. The three discoverers stated that they had long ago considered and discarded the name diplogen. Reason: "The compound NH1H2/2 would be called di-diplogen mono-hydrogen nitride. . . . Unfortunate is the repetition of the syllable 'di.' . . . "The [British] objection to ... deuterium and deuton seems...
Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GÖring who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GÖring's desk...
Because some amorous Frenchman was also a tattletale, Henri Littière, baker & husband, was last week haled before a black-gowned judge of the Paris Correctional Court. A student of medieval life, Baker Littière had locked his frisky wife into a belt of steel and velvet modelled on those known to all U. S. tourists in the Musée de Cluny.* Strangely, Mme Littière went to court to plead in her husband's behalf, extenuate his infibulation...
...Hugo Wolf: Madame Walska was her own sleek self in ropes of pearls and tight black velvet, cut to the waist behind. It was Ganna Walska whom Philadelphians turned out to see, regardless of her Second-Empire costumes. For them it was enough that she had overcome her stage-fright sufficiently to sing...