Word: velvets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week, in a neat black suit and chic red velvet coat, Reporter Mary McGrory finished a survey of political races in New England and New York. As always, t her copy twinkled brightly in the Star (circ. 266,414). In her home town of Boston, she watched the pols stand "cigar-to-cigar" to cheer Mr. Truman; in New York she noted that ardent Campaigner Nelson Rockefeller "plunges into a crowd as into a warm bath," and referred to Rockefeller and Governor Averell Harriman as "two millionaires tramping the streets begging for work." Reading her stories. Political Reporter Carroll...
This week she received one of the few operatic honors not yet accorded her-the opportunity to open the Met season. In the title role of Tosca, opposite Mario Del Monaco as Cavaradossi and George London as Scarpia, she looked statuesquely handsome in velvet gown and jeweled tiara, was more than ever the creature of low-banked passion whom an Italian colleague calls a "diva serena...
...Guards drew a heavy iron chain across the Gandolfo Palace entrance, and in Rome the great bronze doors of St. Peter's clanged shut. Attendants removed the flannel pajamas in which the Pope died and dressed the body in a white silk cassock and an ermine-trimmed crimson velvet cape. Sister Pasqualina, the German nun who had been the Pope's devoted housekeeper, had a small ritual of her own. She assembled the Pope's half-dozen pet birds and, carrying their cage and two suitcases, left for an unannounced destination. Her task was done...
Military Objective. Some of Germany's new rich have cultivated their indulgences along with their undoubted abilities. In the vicinity of industrial Frankfurt, the most popular indulgence was Rosemarie Nitribitt, a big-eyed and notably globoid blonde. Rosie's nest was feathered with Persian rugs, green velvet chairs, thick draperies, a multitude of mirrors, and a French double bed. Her closets were jammed with Paris-label dresses and 40 pairs of Italian shoes; and she always kept handy at least 150,000 marks (about $35,000) in cash...
...good to stay in the Poconos; he worked his way up from the chorus of Broadway musicals to leading roles with Ballet Theater. The wiry kid from Weehawken was uneasy in velvet doublets and ostrich plumes. But in comic and character roles he moved with an antic wit that charmed audiences, and soon he got his chance to take U.S. ballet out of doublets and put it in dungarees...