Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Ford: "At Michigamme, Mich., women and girl resorters wearing overalls and short stockings besieged me for autographs. I publicly rebuked them, saying: 'You ladies and girls are showing very poor taste and worse judgment in coming into the town garbed as you are, without skirts or dresses. I do not want to sign my name for you and prefer not to look at you. I resent your idea of dress...
...Steppes. For a time it seemed as though the uneasy head of King Tut would be emblazoned on our banners of amusement. But the Russians were on the scene, well up in their lines, on the scene and shrewdly shepherded, and consequently the Egyptian did fairly well in dress fabrics, but was unable to snatch the torch of drama from Stanislavski. Yet there is not that maudlin excitement over the pilgrims from Petrograd which prevailed a year ago. If you casually remark to your laundrywoman that Stanislavski and Balieff will be back on Broadway her enthusiasm will scarcely unhinge...
...photographer slinks about on the pavements and warily snaps unsuspecting citizens. Soon afterward their pictures (half length) are published, with their features expunged. With the pictures appears the legend: " Do You Know Yourself ? If You Do, You Get $5!" If you recognize your watch charm, or your dotted swiss dress, just call on the City Editor, prove you are it, and get a crisp five dollar bill...
Amherst and Clark have no monopoly of the limelight. The little Mennonite College of Goshen (Ind.) has been closed for the year 1923-1924 because the Mennonite Board of Education, which favors restriction of dress and social privileges, can't agree on dress and social privileges with the entire student body, the entire faculty and the entire alumni association...
...returns from the questionnaire were not given out, but the War Department declared that there was no " overwhelming sentiment" for a change and none would be made. As a concession to those desiring full dress uniforms, however, at all garrisons, posts and camps, officers will be permitted to wear dinner jackets or civilian full dress at social functions...