Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drivers," the canals, "nature's pavement." On being shown the Doges' Palace, he lighted a cigaret, murmured to Count Pietro Orsi, Podesta of Venice, "Very historical." When he saw the sunset-colored pajamas worn by other guests in his hotel, he reflected, in jocular fashion: "If I dress like everyone else here nobody will know whether I am just getting up or just going to bed. Perhaps I will be able to retrieve my reputation for lateness that has caused me to be known as 'the late Mayor of New York.' " Mayor Walker's youth...
...Mayor, brilliantly attired in white flannels and kaleidescopic sweater, strolled among pajama-clad bathers and loiterers. He would don no beach-pajamas, saying that they reminded him of a familiar dream, that of appearing unclad at some social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance, forgave this defect...
...streets were lined with troops and cadets from the Military College in glittering full-dress uniforms. Vast areas around Parliament House were closed to traffic...
...After the Canyon inspection, Mrs. Coolidge, in informal dress, danced, probably for the first time in five years, at a public dance in the lounge of the Grand Canyon Hotel. First she circled the room with her son; then with Col. Blanton Winship, the President's military aide. After that with Horace Albright, park superintendent. Then with W. M. Nichols, Yellowstone Park Hotel Corp. official...
...offices caused a stout joist to be nailed in the building's doorway so that no coffin might be carried in. The Defense Committee had to be content with a small mortuary chapel in the Italian section of Boston. The mortician, an artist in his way, wanted to dress the bodies in dinner jackets, but the Defense Committee said no, let them lie in their plain laboring-men's Sunday best?black cloth suits, black four-in-hand ties, un- comfortable black shoes. Let the coffins be of plain mahogany draped with Red, banked with odorous Red flowers...