Word: velvets
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...Sorosis wore a black velvet walking suit and pearl-colored gloves. (Just here I should very much like to know why it is that women with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other...
...progress George Lafayette Washington lived eleven miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main road to Winchester, where the belligerents were continually ousting one another's forces. Lest any mishap should befall the medal, it was placed, with its original case of green sealskin lined with velvet, in a wrapping of cotton, deposited in a box, and buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained by the last individual owner during the war, the fear of losing the medal by theft, fire, or accident, and the sense...
...coins. These men had been a long time out of practice, and as great care had to be exercised in clipping, they were ordered to clip only one minute at a time and then rest for two, so as to nerve themselves for the next minute. Under the workingmen velvet was to be placed, so as to keep the chips from falling on the lawn and ruining it. At midnight they were to be carefully removed and shipped to Russia, where they were to be fastened together by a new sticking-plaster just invented by a Freshman...
...spoke we entered a handsome edifice and left the elevator at the third floor. In a gorgeously furnished room was a gentleman reclining on a red velvet sofa...
...left, but myself. I was not running for President, though, but only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past...