Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes at Arnold Constable & Co.'s Fifth Avenue department store, Mrs. Roosevelt bought the dress she will wear at her husband's inaugural-a grey-blue velvet, ankle-length, with long puffed sleeves and a stand-up collar. She will also wear dark blue kid shoes, low-heeled for a long day on the feet...
There is a further and more important objection than these, however, to the very idea which the Poetry Room embodies. It stands for an artificial sentiment about poetry as a kind of writing which requires to be set off by itself and cradled in an arty setting of red velvet to distinguish it from its weaker brethren. In the atmosphere of the Woodberry Memorial, poetry becomes a minor specialty, with no discernible relationship to anything vital, but somehow valuable for sentimental associations. This is an attitude to which a great many people subscribe without feeling that a trip...
...White House Fierce-Arrow, the President-elect was whisked to Washington's Mayflower Hotel where he was shot up the back elevator and helped along velvet-roped corridors to Room 776. First off, Secretary Stimson, who had arranged the White House meeting at Hyde Park week before, was ushered in to tea. He stayed 70 minutes, emerged ironically to tell reporters that among things he and Mr. Roosevelt did not discuss were Prohibition and the Domestic Allotment plan...
...White House at 11 a. m. with almost embarrassing promptness. It just missed colliding in the hallway with President Hoover and his aides as they hustled to the Red Room to receive their callers. Beneath a fine Federalist cut-glass chandelier President Hoover sat down on a plum-colored velvet couch. Mr. Roosevelt was nodded into a seat beside him. Secretaries Stimson and Mills, Democrat Norman Hezekiah Davis and Professor Raymond Moley distributed themselves nearby. Mr. Hoover, as usual, took a cigar. Mr. Roosevelt, as usual, took a cigaret...
...last week Alberto Santos-Dumont, the rebel, was forgotten. The revolution was over and all Brazil went to work to apotheosize Alberto Santos-Dumont, the air hero, in good South American style. In Rio de Janeiro's ancient metropolitan Cathedral, hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero...