Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...studied the lines and curves and ribs. He also turned around to look at women on the boulevards. In this he differed not a whit from other Parisian gentlemen, but he took notes. He then made sketches and sold them to dressmakers. Finally, the owner of a dress establishment gave him a job in return for a dog that M Poiret's father gave to the dress-place proprietor...
...heading: A New Way to Review a Fleet. When Presidents Roosevelt, Wilson and Harding reviewed the Fleet, said Mr. Kent, "silk-hatted and frock-coated [they] stood rigidly on the bridges of their boats from the moment the first gun was fired until the last ship had passed. . . . Full dress is the order of the day. It isn't a matter of taste-it's orders. And presence of the President on the bridge is essential to the review...
...Apparently the spectacle did not interest the Commander-in-Chief-at least not to the point of complimenting the American Navy either by his presence and attention while it passed, or by recognizing the dignity of the occasion by wearing the regulation full-dress presidential uniform...
Seventy-five women asked the Chicago city council last week to pass an ordinance requiring women to wear more underwear, as a matter of public health, when they try on dresses in the city stores. Councilmen were astounded, promised to investigate, learned that many a woman now wears under her dress only a pair of bloomers and a brassiere. The waist line, as well as the neck and arms, is bare...
...stage of his undergraduate career he was publicly reprimanded for having absented himself from chapel on 22 occasions). He has written more than 20 volumes of novels and essays, his stories generally dealing with the "best people," no state occasion being required for his characters to appear in evening dress...