Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Augustabernard-Pastel and white evening dresses with twisted belts of chiffon velvet. In reaction to the waist-length velvet evening jackets of last Spring are toe-length evening coats, draped like dresses. The Augustabernard waistline is down to the top of the hips...
...When Congress' work is done, Congress can adjourn in five minutes. Proroguing Parliament is a lengthy and a solemn business. Last week putting an end to the 13-month session of Parliament (longest since the War) Lieut. General Sir William Pulteney, Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, in black velvet, with lace on his cuffs and a sword at his side, walked from the House of Lords down the corridor to the House of Commons where the door was ceremoniously slammed in his face. Knocking three times with his Rod, he entered the House, bowed to the Speaker...
Holiday (Pathe). Manhattan cinemaddicts discovered with amazement last week that the witty, rich and velvet sophistication out of which Philip Barry fashioned the best comedy of the 1928-29 theatrical season has not, in translation to the screen, been exchanged for the crude, stuffy plushes of Hollywood naivete. Presenting the situation of a youth engaged to marry an heiress but unwilling to accept the pompous responsibilities of great wealth, the story and its spirit might easily have been suffered to lapse into the Poor Little Rich Girl stereotype. When Johnny Case, deserting Julia Seton simply so he can have...
...Morrow was out on a chatty, homey campaign for her husband. She addressed women at the Jersey City Y. W. C. A, told of her fear of tripping in her court dress before Britain's Queen Mary, admired Her Majesty's courage for putting a pocket in her velvet brocaded gown, marveled that Funnyman Will Rogers had adopted one of her own jokes.* At Newark to a large Republican audience including Governor Morgan Foster Larsen, she detailed a trans-Atlantic telephone conversation with her husband as follows...
...verities, new inklings in the velvet hummed...