Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Serra di Cassano, was decorating a town house by buying wholesale lots of pictures at a few pounds apiece. Browsing about one run-down little antique shop, he spied a medium-sized (29 in. by 24½ in.) canvas, showing an aged man in dark brown coat and dark velvet hat, staring moodily out at the world with large, pained eyes. The dealer was glad to include the picture in the sale for an extra $25. Then the marquis had it cleaned, and experts identified the picture as an authentic Rembrandt, probably painted around 1660, nine years before the artist...
...Stranger in Town (Mel Tormé; Capitol). The "velvet fog" is back with a lonely mood number that combines the story of That Old Gang of Mine with some of the feeling of One for My Baby...
...best fisherman for votes the country has ever had." As Nixon finished his brief speech. Press Secretary James C. Hagerty and Presidential Assistant C. D. Jackson set before the President an anniversary gift from the Cabinet and the White House staff: two dozen assorted fishing lures mounted on velvet. A bass lure with two gangs of hooks got loose and snagged the press secretary's navy blue silk trousers...
...held it in great esteem, and imparted to it the dignity of his own character. He refused to shake hands during his eight years in the office-he felt that such a gesture of familiarity was beneath the presidency-and always bowed instead. He dressed richly in velvet, wore hats plumed with ostrich feathers, rode in a six-horse coach with liveried lackeys and outriders, felt himself the equal of any king on earth, but always thought of himself as the "Most Obed. Hble Serv.t" of the U.S. people, who, decade after decade, have borne the stamp of his character...
With iron fist and velvet glove, the rulers of Communist East Germany sought to erase the memory of the 17th of June. From the massive Soviet embassy in Unter den Linden streamed decrees and orders...