Word: chiton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...life of Preston Sturges might read as dizzily as one of his own comedies if it were not, in essence, so intensely bitter. On his first day at school in Chicago, Preston rode a bicycle and wore a Greek chiton. The bicycle was his stepfather's influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...