Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some, like "Jubilee of the Red Army" ($12), came in delicate glass flacons. A children's set containing tooth paste and powder, soap and toothbrush cost $2.70 and sold well. Most expensive gift package: a "Golden Star" assortment of cosmetics, packed in a golden box with a red velvet lining. Price...
Kenneth D. Robertson, Jr. '29 was studying the program for the Law School Forum on "Communism and the Churches" when his two friends came into the New Lecture Hall. The shorter man was bald and wore heavy shellrimmed glasses. He had on a black topcoat with a black velvet collar. As he sat down he refreshed Robertson's acquaintance with the taller man, whom Robertson jokingly remembered...
Whenever he is displeased by public curiosity. Arthur Godfrey disappears behind a velvet curtain of pressagents, vice presidents and well-rehearsed secretaries. Godfrey did his vanishing act once again last week when Liggett & Myers (Chesterfield cigarettes) withdrew its $4,000,000-a-year sponsorship from his Friday radio show, his Monday and Wednesday radio & TV shows, and the Wednesday night Arthur Godfrey & His Friends TV show...
...dark, medieval palace of the archdiocese of Seville, the aged (73) cardinal sat, throned on a dais of red velvet, his old eyes half-shuttered. To his right and left sat two rows of black-robed prelates, erect in straight-backed chairs...
...year-old Author Papini only sits and smiles from the great velvet armchair in his little villa in Florence where he spends his days, partially paralyzed and all but blind. "My relations with the Devil," he says, "are very ancient. They go back at least 50 years . . . The Devil, who plays an important part in the life of men, is unknown. It seems to me important that men should know him intimately." To the suggestion that he is in grievous error and may be ordered to withdraw the book, he points out that he is not engaged in defining doctrine...