Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...velvet-padded stool on the green grass beside the fence of the half-ruined Royal Palace in Belgrade, a Nazi officer-artist sat sketching the toppled dome of one of the Palace wings. New York Times's Correspondent Ray Brock, back on his old beat, strolled up and asked what the drawing was for. The officer told him it was for the German picture magazine Signal. Then, to Correspondent Brock's surprise, the officer suddenly became very voluble...
...Mexico has also produced a pair of torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...
This was the company that Huey joined. The Marine Band played solemnly in the warm afternoon. Two-by-two, 18 Senators marched to the velvet-roped enclosure where Huey's statue, concealed behind a flag, stood in its place between William Jennings Bryan and "Old Bob" La Follette. About 250 spectators, mostly tourists passing through, stopped to see what was going...
...Garden of Eden!" Here she wears costumes (by the English house of Motley) inspired by the paintings of the late Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), the "Master of Swish" whose society portraits had an even glossier Edwardian swank than those of John Singer Sargent. Simply by appearing in a blue velvet period gown, with a swooping hat crowned by an exotic bird and delicately moored in place by a face veil, Cornell stops the show...
Recent threats and inducements of Hit ler's velvet-voiced diplomat. Ambassador Franz von Papen, had failed to impress Turkey's astute little President. Ismet Inonii. Asked how he had managed to withstand the foremost Nazi pressure ex pert, the President declared: "Allah be praised, I am deaf." Not deaf was Tur key's leader to less polished but meatier promises of British Ambassador Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen. Last week his country firmly snubbed the Axis by signing a comprehensive economic agreement with Britain. By her sharp barter tactics Germany had corralled 54% of Turkey...