Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good Peter reeled with the blow . . . and missing his footing, by reason of his wooden leg, down he came on his seat of honor with a crash which shook the surrounding hills, and might have wrecked his frame, had he not been received into a cushion softer than velvet, which some kindly cow had benevolently prepared for his reception...
...Collins' establishment was one of the most elaborate in the city since the notorious parlor of Mme. Restell, almost 100 years ago. A florid midwife bedecked with velvet and plumes, Mme. Restell amassed a fortune from abortions. She used to kiss her young clients good-by with the words: "Go, and sin no more." In 1878 she was finally hunted down by Reformer Anthony Comstock, committed suicide in her bathtub...
...these firms have switched to U.S. goods, frequently have relabeled them "Made in Germany." Many a firm peddled as much propaganda as merchandise. Smart Latin Americans, comparing U.S. anti-Axis professions with U.S. commercial practice, thought Good Neighborliness was funny: a papier-mâché hand in a velvet glove...
Degree received, Lord Halifax slipped behind a red velvet curtain on the platform. He soon reappeared in a gold-braided gown, with a page (ten-year-old Andrew Chaundy, son of an Oxford fellow) holding his train. Trailing him, in red, white & blue Oxford gowns, were a British delegation and a group of Harvardmen who had studied or taught at Oxford, among them Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. Lord Halifax, as Chancellor of Oxford University, took President Conant's chair and to the surprise of his audience opened an unprecedented Oxford convocation on foreign soil. The oldest U.S. university turned...
Cindy Lou Bethany of Authoress Clare Boothe's play was a syrupy Southern blue blood who went to a Connecticut house-party with a Hollywood director to meet a Hollywood producer and salt away the screen role of Velvet O'Toole, the Confederate heroine of the national best-seller Kiss the Boys Goodbye. Paramount's Cindy Lou (Mary Martin) is an out-of-work Broadway chorine who scurries to her ancestral Southern home after learning that a Broadway director (night-blooming Don Ameche) is Dixie-bound to scour the South for a sure-nuf Southern belle...