Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the first young man she has ever seen, a gob landing from an American destroyer. How, one cannot help asking, did she attain her perfect mastery of correct English if her only companion had been a drunken beachcomber of a father, and where did she get the print dress that one discovers her to be wearing, after naturally supposing for the first page or two that she wore the sort of costume commonly attributed to the inhabitants of lonely tropical islands? Mr. Chambers does not explain, and his story accordingly leaves the reader skeptical. Mr. Train writes with less...
...fifteenth century. The painting represents a daimio on horseback, and near him a standing and a seated figure. The picture is drawn in black on a paper probably once white but now gray in tone. There are slight touches of red in the trappings of the horse and the dress of the figures. The composition is of the simplest, the drawing spirited and sure. It is interesting to note that the picture is remarkably close to a recent purchase of the Louvre, attributed to Mitsunobu (1433-1525) and published in "Le Musee du Louvre depuis 1914, Dons, Legs et Acquisitions...
...abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University News: "Overlooking the physiological aspects of women's clothing there is a strong moral aspect to this laxity of dress. . . . There is a minimum of clothes and a maximum of cosmetics, head-decorations, fans and jewelry. It is, indeed, an alarming situation when our twentieth-century debutante comes out arrayed like a South Sea Island savage", says President Murphy of the University of Florida: "The low-cut gowns, the rolled...
...detail. "The personal problems of adjustment in business should have constant individual attention, but they should also be covered by organized instruction and group conferences, so that the less aggressive man who needs help most shall get it. In this work there should be considered such topics as dress, deportment approach, and the use of spoken and written English. Shall the graduate go to a small town or a large town? Shall he try to build up his own business, or work for a big corporation or for a small one? How is he to get a job? What jobs...
Then there bursts into the village the radiant Guila, sister-in-law of Professor Spinosi, a fascinating woman whose metropolitan dress and manners shock the slumbering inhabitants into buzzing activity. All the men, young and old, flock around her, and inhale new life from her glowing personality and energetic example. Deftly she deals telling blows at the smug complacency of the Academy savants and as a final coup d'etat arranges the marriage of Marcella to Enrico...