Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed Negro in blue stood on a velvet-draped stage of the American Art Association, Anderson Galleries in New York last week with his arms full of Sardinian snaphaunces. The auctioneer droned along in his pulpit: "Five, do I hear seven-fifty? Five, do I hear seven-fifty? It's against you in the back of the room. Seven-fifty, do I hear ten" Seven-fifty, do I hear ten-?" All over the room the well-dressed crowd of dealers and socialites signalled their bids with the twitch of a pencil, the jerk of a head. For six days...
...Velvet Glove, There are two ways to play the Dictator. One may adopt the thundering voice and the imperial scowl like Benito Mussolini and his unsuccessful imitator Adolf Hitler, or one may pull the wires of diplomacy with the velvet gloves of a Metternich or Machiavelli. Soft-spoken General von Schleicher prefers velvet gloves. He still smiles and tells jokes, likes to stand shyly in the back row in group photographs of the Cabinet. He dislikes announcements and interviews. Last week when cornered by the New York Times Correspondent Frederick T. Birchall he was careful to doff his uniform...
...white-haired dame with the patrician profile and shallow-crowned velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch...
Jewel Robbery (Warner Bros.) recommends to tycoons' velvet-cased wives and to wellspoken jewel robbers that they get together. Kay Francis is a Viennese who has a husband and a lover but is looking for a Man. She identifies herself as "shallow and weak" but a Woman. After a romp in a morning bath three feet deep in suds, a relay encased in towels from maid to maid, a gradual insinuation into the usual clothing and some gay prattle with a friend, Kay Francis toward evening goes to a jewel shop with husband, lover and friend. She meets...
...Interior. Charged with the federal policing of all Germany, this typical Prussian junker (landed aristocrat) can wield much power in the coming Reichstag election. During the War as Chief Political Officer of the Eastern Army Command and afterward as Governor of Northern Lithuania in 1918 he showed both velvet tact and an iron hand...