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Word: velvets (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Materials: wool, tweed, much velvet, taffeta, lace, crepe. Novelties: diarachnak, a new double rough tweed, and dogaliah, a rough wool filled with long white dog hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Empress Eugenie Again | 8/3/1931 | See Source »

...divertissement's activity takes place before a severe black velvet drop. A good band (Pike Davis' Continental Orchestra) is placed onstage and blares forth from time to time as a background for the production's various musical numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: May 18, 1931 | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...ticket was for Gregalach, "my fellow employes would not let me work. They congratulated me and promised me everything and the boss told me to get out." Workman Woods announced that he would purchase his wife "an Easter outfit . . . buy that horse Gregalach and keep him in a velvet-lined stall," and give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grand National, Apr. 6, 1931 | 4/6/1931 | See Source »

...also contributing two seventeenth-century flower paintings showing the Dutch tradition as practiced in England and France. Arthur Edwin Bye, of Philadelphia, is lending both a monumental Van Huysum and a canvas of unusual historic interest, containing a medallion by Van Dyck enclosed in a flower wreath by "Velvet" Breughel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSEUM COURSE TO GIVE EXHIBITION OF STILL-LIFE | 4/1/1931 | See Source »

...highways.* Present also was shrewd, cynical James Langley of the Monitor & New Hampshire Patriot whose paper was the only important one to support the Tax Commission's program, and who ventured that whatever the editors' committee might learn about State finance and taxation would be "so much velvet." Absent was Managing Editor William Theophilus Nichols of the Manchester Union, arch-enemy of the tax program. He was gravely ill, died the following week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Granite State | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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