Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death, a Legend. Hashish and women interested him enormously, but he liked alcohol most. He traded off his fashionable clothes for one baggy, brown velvet suit, and took to staggering up & down the steep streets of Montmartre, drinking wine and coughing blood. He and Utrillo would wander into bars, introducing each other to the drunks inside as the "greatest painter in the world"; when the cops came, Modigliani would be carried off, excitedly reciting Dante to the uncomprehending constabulary. Head-wagging Parisians called him the peintre maudit (cursed painter...
...footman flings open the portals of my palace in that New Jerusalem for me; another unrolls a red path of velvet to the enormous motor which floats me through the city traffic-I leaning back like Ed ward VII, or like God, on leather cushions, smoking a big cigar...
...took offense at a natty, well-manicured prisoner in the police lineup, issued a famous order to the 200 detectives present: "He's the best-dressed man in this room. . . . Don't be afraid to muss 'em up. Blood should be smeared all over that velvet collar." Under Valentine (and, of course, with the help of LaGuardia and Tom Dewey) the slot-machine gangs, gambling rings, white-slavers, "popes and rabbis" (meddling politicians) were largely driven out or undercover. New Yorkers boasted, for the first time in memory, of the most honest police force in the land...
...believe that this elevated brute... sitting on his rump on a cushion of embroidered velvet ... has seven kings of Europe, two republics, and a continent tributary to him when his whole naval force is not equal to two line-of-battle ships...
Picasso was delighted. He admired the K rations and the Velvet tobacco, kissed van Sant on both cheeks...