Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Goga party, having been first to learn of this opportunity, had applied first and had been awarded one black dot just about the size of the Peasant Party circle. Those Rumanians who favor Goga are mostly literate, and illiterates who vote for him by mistake will be so much velvet for the unscrupulous poet...
Before the Civil War, water color painting and painting on velvet came next after samplers in the accomplishments of proper little women. No adult productions reflect as limpidly as theirs the ironbound sobriety of that period. Among examples shown last week were an able Baptisam of our Savour by Ann Johnson, age unknown, and five "mourning pictures"- families standing at tombs overhung with weeping willows. Inscriptions: "The Grass Witherith, the Flower Fadeth, and the Hopes of Man is Destroyed"; "Our Dying Friends are Pioneers to Smooth our Rugged Pass to Death...
Little girl escapists who put their imaginations to more cheerful use turned out pictures of landscapes inspired by romantic literature: Dunbarton Castle, The Lady of the Lake, A View in Asia. Boys who seldom went in for velvet or water colors got their chance at art in "steel pen exercises" in colored ink, supposed to help penmanship. Subjects varied from Napoleon on Horseback to Kittens at Play. "Fractur" painting with quill pens and homemade colors, a survival of medieval illumination which flourished among the Pennsylvania Germans, had at least one child virtuoso in William Henry Oberholtzer, who was in school...
...music and dancing, and in this case is not hard to accept when accompanied by the show's well-drilled ballet and the voices of Margaret Bannermann and Michael Bartlett. Miss Bannermann has an ideal voice for interpreting the lyric Straus melodies, and Michael Bartlett boasts a pleasing velvet tenor as well as a profile of the best vaudeville tradition. Their most beautiful number probably is the duet, "To Live Is to Love," written by Johann Straus...
...Completely surrounded by congratulations in the foyer" (so reported Hearst's Chicago Herald & Examiner), "Mrs. Royden Keith, in black velvet trimmed with a diamante bodice, received all the between-the-acts applause with such modesty as the president of the Orchestral Association should assume." In the boxes of the Auditorium Theatre sat other Chicago socialite ladies, flashing even more ermine and jewels than had been exhibited at the opening of the Chicago City Opera last fortnight. The ladies were out in force, for this was a ladies' evening. On the stage, pretty Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao (Manhattan...