Word: draping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vagabond started. He knew he hadn't seen her come in the door. Breezed in? He glanced at the open window with suspicion. A faded drape undulated langurously. Could she--no, girls don't drift through windows, he reminded himself. Not at Harvard...
...Rochas now has a pretty blue-and-white salon at 12 Avenue Matignon where he does a thriving business, sketching his designs himself and personally directing fitters as they drape dresses on live models. His new Manhattan establishment is identical in style and layout with his Paris shop. An old five-story private house at 32 East 67th Street, with a new, shining, white façade and MARCEL ROCHAS in deep blue over the lintel, it sits in a row of old brownstone apartments, like a blue-eyed blonde on a bench with pickaninnies. Inside is a big desk...
...frequently speaks his mind. That's why he's popular with Washington correspondents. His suite in the House Building retains much of the flavor of the small town lawyer's office. Pants which are obviously in the midst of being carried personally to the presser drape the backs of chairs. Country weeklies from Georgia are piled here and there, and "Goober" is none too concerned with House(office)keeping. But let no one, because of these oddities in Congressman Cox's make up, presume that he is not abreast of the times and that...
...Root-Pitney" members who will divide the winner's check are W. Parmer Fuller and Gerald M. Trautman, speakers; and Clarence M. Condon, Bernard E. Drape, Robert S. Fougner, Leslie L. Roos Malcolm I. Ruddock, and Arthur L. Webber, all of whom worked on the brief...
This demonstrates the principle of one possible way in which the descent may have been effected, the horizontal rod in this case projecting out from the vertical pole through the folds in the drape, and being disjoined and disposed of before the removal of the tent. But there are several other possible methods that the semi-secrecy of the tent would have permitted. In any event, Plunkett's assertion that "evidently we were not meant to see this part of the performance, or it would all have been done in the open" is incredibly...