Word: drapes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lean years in fashions are no lean years for Lane Bryant, Inc., No. 1 W. 39th Street, Manhattan, outfitters of the ample. For it is the specialty of the Lane Bryant stores so to drape the stout figure that its outlines may be reduced, restricted, curbed. Many an "outsize" woman has come away from Lane Bryant's with the comfortable feeling that 20 superfluous pounds have been deftly hidden in the subtle folds of the Bryant draperies. And, though the business was begun largely with the idea of catering to the naturally stout woman (TIME, June 4), the unmodish...
...lines have been changed to conform to the modernized externals. The scenery, designed by W. B. Cowen '30, president of the society, is of the modern drape type, and the male members of the cast will appear in cutaways, excepting the butler in tuxedo and the chauffeur who replaces the chair carriers of Moliere...
...osteopath had theretofore devised was a bronze one exposed at Kirksville, Mo., last week. It was fixed to a great boulder and lay hid under a cloth while several hundred U. S. osteopaths, at Kirksville for their 32nd convention, massed themselves before it. Two children dragged at the drape. Beholders viewed with emotion cast phrases commemorating the 100th birth anniversary of their school's founder, Dr. Andrew Taylor Still...
...dilettante, Carroll knows a beautiful female body when he sees one, knows, too, how not to drape it, is well aware that W. C. Fields is a good box-office name, that Joe Frisco, Ray Dooley, Gordon Dooley, Dorothy Knapp, in one theatre, insure against empty seats. The Carroll formula is simple, the execution elaborate: sign stars, hire lovely female bodies to undulate across stage, buy a few "hot" sketches. Music is nonessential (there is but one worthy song, "Vaniteaser," in the show...
President Coolidge let it be known last week that Custer Park, S. D., had been chosen for his summer vacation. At once observers began to drape his choice with political significances. They pointed out that the decision had followed visits from Senator Peter Norbeck of South Dakota, self styled "Roosevelt Republican" and no intimate of the Old Guard...