Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week they knocked off work, got happily into velvet jackets or laced bodices and flowing skirts, tapped 300 kegs and 2,500 cases of beer and had a celebration even bigger than their annual Wilhelm Tell festival. The occasion: the town's 100th anniversary fete...
...after Daughter Gloria cut off her $21,000 a year competence (TIME, March 25), carried out her threat to open a simply devastating Manhattan parfumerie. The gentlemen of the press outdid themselves in describing the new chateau of smell. Sample: "eggplant purple . . . with things like carved mirrors, Degas drawings, velvet divans . . . and tooled red leather desks, but simply teeming." Mother Gloria herself designed the coat of arms. Its blazon: 1) a turquoise horseshoe on a field royal blue; 2) two royal blue hearts pierced with a gilt arrow on a field turquoise; 3) a royal blue dancing girl rampant...
...object of this Elbert Hubbard rhapsody was Mrs. Mollie Netcher Newbury. He might better have compared her to Hetty Green. From her huge office, bare except for a big rolltop desk and green velvet couch, Mrs. Newbury had run Chicago's Boston Store for 42 years with a hand as firm as it was unknown. So doing, she had become a State Street legend...
Henry VIII believed that his new bride, Anne Boleyn, was comparable to the finest products of the royal orchards-"a wife with a strawberry breath, cherry lips, apricot cheeks, and a soft velvet head like a melicotton [peach]." But old Farmer Brocke insisted that the new Queen was actually the daughter of Old Nick, as was proved by the fact that she had a mole shaped like a strawberry on her white neck, and sometimes touched it with her left hand-on which grew a rudimentary sixth finger. Farmer Brocke believed that King Henry had married a witch...
...reign of the great Queen but of the terrible turmoil and trumpeting that ushered in her birth, childhood and adolescence-years when the lives of privy councilors, dukes, queens, princesses, butchers and bakers hung upon a royal mood, a rash word, or a murderous plot concocted behind velvet curtains...