Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile the handsome, velvet-horned seven-point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
...Jockeys riding for His Majesty wear a purple jacket with scarlet sleeves, a black velvet cap fringed with gold...
...lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like a birthday cake with bows and shirrings facilitate locomotion. In lieu of fullness some of the tightest skirts...
...during which St. Paul's sermon was read in Greek as well as English. A choir of Greek moppets sang a Byzantine hymn to St. John the Divine. Greeks and Episcopalians were photographed together as bushy-bearded Athenagoras. Archbishop of North & South America, presented the stone in a velvet-lined box on behalf of Chrysostomos, Archbishop of Athens, who wrote to his western brother saying: '"I consider this stone more precious than gold or silver...
...first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated in an armchair upholstered with orchid-colored velvet, composed numerous four-voiced glees, two of which were named respectively "Gently Hear Me, Charming Maiden" and "Come, Fairest Nymph...