Word: doff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months had taught him much. Soon he would doff the disguise and go back to Russia. Possible candidates for whippings and roastings drifted through his mind. As for his people, he would change their mode of dress, force them to shave their beards, compel them to smoke. A navy second to none and Russia modernized. . . . All in good time...
Still avid for publicity, naprapaths proceeded to the Century of Progress for Sally Rand, fan dancer. Giving her no time to doff her flat white hat, Naprapath Smith had her shrug off the top of her dress. He found she wore no slip, no brassiere. In search for "ligatights" he applied a gadget called a "multitherm" to her back, found none...
...historical illusion then lend the word some meaning, which it lacks in an age addicted to strong language. Boundaries warp perspectives even more: one land's hero is another's hissing, and there is no universal Emily Post to tell plain men in whose presence to doff their hats. But this week, in the name of half a hemisphere, literary Manhattan was ready to do homage to a foreign writer, to acknowledge him" as safely great though still dangerously alive...
...Josef Stalin or the Soviet State but the Moscow City Soviet issued last week a decree as dreadful as those which forced Chinese to cut off their pigtails, Turks to doff...
...Springtime for Henry." As Mary Howard, an author, she has the unpleasant task to ask her publisher's wife to surrender the husband because she is really in love with him, and he believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about it all. Serious women are apt to be irritating anyway. Secretly one admires people who are so fearlessly frank, but when one sees them...