Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Satin Dress, Ermine Coat Sirs...
...inform Mr. Bassett that I have just completed a 2,285 rnile hop from San Diego to Minneapolis clad in my seal and ermine coat, satin dress, white hat and corsage of roses, for I made the trip in a Ryan monoplane-brougham type, sistership to the one Lindbergh now owns...
...liberalizing several claims and insurance sections of the World War Veterans Act of 1924. C. Passed a bill authorizing $6,499,500 for improving Army airports. C, Passed a bill authorizing the leasing of public lands for airports. C. Debated a bill providing $38.50 for a Nicaraguan woman, whose dress was torn by U. S. Marines; raised the amount to $138.50 and passed it. C. Debated Flood Control...
Diamond Lil. Propped up under the armpits by a dress that might have been designed by the stage carpenter, Mae West played the role that she had written about a bygone queen of Manhattan's underworld. Diamond Lil was a harlot whose heart was as big and golden as the enormous swan shaped bed that stood in her elaborate cubicle above Gus Jordan's saloon and brothel. None the less, she was hardboiled; when a Salvation Army captain came to save her soul, she planned to seduce him and when a lady threatened a double cross, Diamond...
...days before the opening the play is whipped into shape. Then the cursing beings. What seemed funny beforehand doesn't seem at all funny now. Finally comes the Sunday night before the Monday opening, when the final dress rehearsal occurs. It starts at 7 o'clock in the evening and continues until about 7 or 8 o'clock the following morning. Then the weeks spent on the road before going into New York are full of trials. One audience never sees exactly the same performance that another sees...