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...Woman's Masonic College of Covington, Ga., now out of existence, where my grandmother received her A.B. degree in 1854, the prescribed uniform was "a sprigged challis" over hoops, with a demure green velvet poke bonnet tied under the chin...
...Madness I loathe-abhor from my soul, beyond all power to utter, hate in my bones all crack-brained geniuses and near-geniuses, all emotionalism, eccentric gesturing and posturing, extravagance! Boldness, yes, audacity, boldness is all, the one indispensable thing - but quiet, decorous, wedded to the proprieties, velvet-shod with irony. That is how I am, that is what I will...
Turning out original popular songs at the rate of 30 a month-big as music publishing goes-B. M. I. last week for the first time got on Variety's list of network "plugs." We Could Make Such Beautiful Music and Here In the Velvet Night were each played more than ten times, but by house orchestras rather than popular bands. Variety reported that music publishers affiliated with ASCAP planned to complain to the Federal Communications Commission that CBS was discriminating in favor of B. M. I. songs, breaking its rule against repeating any number within two hours...
High Street in Oxford has seen some strange sights. One day last week it saw another. Attired in velvet smoking jacket, with an orchid, a lily and a white harebell in his buttonhole, David Burdett, Queen's College undergraduate, paraded up & down in front of the East Gate pub, opposite his college. He was attended by two sandwich men, whose signs read: "Rita is Unfair to David...
...were: 1) five of the world's twelve most famed Persian carpets, 2) 300 manuscripts and masterpieces of Persian miniature painting, 3) a comprehensive collection of 500 pieces of Persian pottery of all periods from 4000 B. C. to the present, 4) the most perfect specimens of Persian velvet known to modern times, 5) a newly discovered 14th-Century illuminated Shah-Nameh ("Book of Kings"), containing the only known portrait of the famous Mongol conqueror Tamerlane...