Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico. Republicans renominated Governor Richard C. ("Honest Dick") Dillon, famed in his last campaign for his 22-word campaign speeches, and objections to wearing a dress suit at his inaugural ball. Governor Dillon said he might cut his campaign speeches this year to eleven words. His opponent: Democrat Bob Dow. cowboy Attorney-General...
...Knapp's "physical and mental suffering, her exposure, disgrace and complete ruin." But 30 days of gaol she had to serve. She was Syracuse University's Dean of Home Economics after leaving, office and until exposed. She went to prison in a trim navy-blue dress and tan felt hat, matronly, greyhaired, self-possessed, "disgraced," "ruined...
...Winnery, desiccated bachelor of 56, collected notes for a book on "Miracles and Other Natural Phenomena." The sight of buxom Miss Fosdick, for all her black austerity of dress, reminded him that he had never known passion...
...week. At a marriage ceremony in Grodno, North Poland, a priest asked his oft-repeated routine question, added "Let him speak now or forever hold his peace." A woman spoke, "The groom is not a man," she said. Investigation followed. The groom explained that it was her custom to dress as a man, marry wealthy women, get their money...
...revolver barked, the audience laughed, in the wings a girl screamed, her clothes afire. She, one Ellen Delmour, 21, "burleycue" chorine, was standing too close to the revolver whence came the report. A spark lit her flimsy dress. Her burns hurt, will not kill...