Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...volume there is also a paragraph describing the dress required by an undergraduate, whose coat should be "black-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps: waist reaching to the natural waist, lapel of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric...
Water Pistols. If a girl refused to dance with a boy at a Rosewood High School of Rosewood, Minn., party, he promptly squirted her in the eye and dress with a water pistol. Twelve soaked girls went home from a recent party, caught cold, were absent from school for a week. Parents protested. Last week the Rosewood school officials announced that any person carrying water pistols or other squirting apparati would be ousted from the school...
...colleges have only accentuated her drabness. The new union station is to be another ornament. The mere plans for it have already made her proud again, and boastful. With the new railroad tracks for freight and passenger terminals she plans to stitch together an up-to-date industrial dress, to become again in fact the Queen City of the West. Other U. S. cities have their soubriquets -descriptive, fanciful, hopeful. Some of them...
Fortunately for the U. S., the established procedure of the Pan-American conference is to deal only with subjects actually on the agenda and to deal with these in secret committee rooms. When a committee reaches agreement, its decision is passed upon by a formal, full dress, decorous meeting of the conference as a whole. Under this system Latin fireworks have been quenched at all the five previous sittings of the Pan-American conference...
...plot is simple. Louise, the daughter of honest and conservative working people, herself employed in a dress-maker's-shop, has fallen in love with Julien a poet and "pillar of a cabaret" as Louise's mother succintly describes him. Julien has written frankly to the parents to ask for Louise's hand in marriage. The poet's careless life and invisible income do not prepossess the somewhat strait-laced parents in his favor, and they refuse his offer. Louise promises to clope with her lover if the opposition continues. After a fantastic picture of Montmartre at night in which...