Word: apparel
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...middle-aged bourgeois of Paris wakes one morning with a burning thirst and a mind absolutely blank as to the events of the night before. He discovers to his horror that he has brought home, besides various articles of female apparel, an old schoolmate as a bed-fellow, who is suffering from the effects of the same hilarity. The wife of the bourgeois enters, newspaper in hand, and reads about the gruesome murder of a coal-heaver's daughter which has been committed in the rue de Lourcine. The two listeners find coal upon their hands, and all the evidence...
...arrangement of the color-scheme has been intrusted to Mr. Joseph Lindon Smith, who has made some unusual experiments in coloring antique statuary. In the "Agamemnon" the varied apparel of captives and body-guards attendant on a victorious army will afford ample opportunity for an extensive display of brilliant hues...
...Cambridge Police Station, Number 2, Central Square, where they may be identified by their owners any day between 7.45 and 9 o'clock in the morning, and from 2 to 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The stolen articles consist of watches, scarf-pins and various kinds of wearing apparel...
...style of play; the few remaining changes are of minor importance and include such provisions as those allowing the side scored upon the choice of kicking off or receiving the kick-off, and prohibiting the presence of metallic or hard substance in head-gear or other wearing apparel...
...immediate economic needs of the island. "The United States has furnished foodstuffs cheaper than any country in the world, and can continue to do so, and we propose that the suffering, helpless Porto Ricans shall have them free of duty. But our plan means also cheap wearing apparel, cheap building material and cheap manufacturing material. To levy a duty upon these essentials of economic and social development would mean suffering to the already impoverished island more than commensurate with any revenue received...