Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...erstwhile Republican nominee's remarks were not all velvet. As Dorothy Thompson warns: "This is not the time for calling names," and Mr. Landon's destructive criticism Tuesday evening was neither good taste nor good politics. Granted that Mr. Roosevelt may be a despot reaching for more power, that he is a "changed man" and a turncoat, and that he has certainly made a grave mistake in the Black episode; nevertheless thoughtful voters want to hear more than that just now. Giving the New Deal the raspberry is easy, but mere negations of its principles wil never attract votes...
Last week King George, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and 24 other knights-youngest, the Duke of Norfolk; oldest, the Duke of Portland; newest, Earl Baldwin-assembled in the Waterloo Chamber of Windsor Castle. Each wore a mantle of dark blue velvet with a crimson hood, a black velvet hat with white ostrich plumes. The only members of the Order who did not wear a gold-encrusted dark-blue garter below the left knee were the two Queens. Instead they wore them on the left...
...will go on!'' (Adds Mrs. Keyes: "Thank God it has gone on for Genevieve Walsh Gudger!") Mrs. Warren G. Harding was a dear friend; Mrs. Keyes once wrote her up, like this: "Mrs. Harding herself looked like the embodiment of a fairyland vision in white velvet and diamonds...
...water spectacle, which he named BILLY ROSE'S AQUACADE, the velvet-eyed little showman hired a handful of aquatic stars including Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller, Eleanor Holm Jarrett, who is at home with either water or champagne. Divers Aileen Riggin and Dick Degener and Stubby Kreuger, the diving clown. A floating stage 160 ft. wide, equipped with diving towers, was built in a shipyard and towed into place on the lake front by six tugs. While the Aquacade was going on, the stage was to be 60 ft. offshore from the block-long casino whence 4,000 spectators could watch...
...tall lady, who has long passed the age of frivolity, feels at the velvet ribbon about here wrinkled neck, and then, to call attention to here irritation, rattles here program violently. None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first...