Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beebe, submarine poet, also captured the demoiselle, a dainty fishlet which gradually changes its afternoon dress of bright yellow ? and blue to an evening dress of charcoal grey...
...excluded as "improperly dressed," because he was wearing only ordinary evening clothes, adorned simply with the orders of the Legion of Honor and the Bath. That was not enough. The invitations, by Royal command, called for the full dress uniform to which Lord Byng is entitled by his rank ?a uniform resplendent with scarlet and gold. . . . Court etiquette makes no exceptions. The baron cooled his heels without, while Lady Byng, "properly dressed," dined...
...Wales, donned masquerade costume and attended a great ball at Devonshire House. George V, with his traditional distaste for dancing, stood watching some rather portly couples pirouette. "Humph!" he exclaimed to a friend, "they look like people pushing wheelbarrows." A distaste for even the slight subterfuge of fancy dress is characteristic of both Their Majesties. And, today, as King and Queen they masquerade no more. Paradoxically they are fated to wear at every State function robes and diadems more breath-taking than any fancy dress...
...drama, though often sharply crude, is rarely dull. This gruesome Soviet production is bluntly directed, stagily acted. But it is also strangely fascinating. The wife of a wealthy hunstman is horribly clawed by a bear just before her son is born. The son, as a result, is impelled to dress himself as a bear and craftily attack tender maids. At last, to the horror of the villagers, he marries a lively girl. The expected happens. He reverts to beast, rips her to death on their wedding night...
...high "V"-split collar like that of Charles Gates Dawes. A Theodore Roosevelt pince-nez. Such are the two foibles of dress affected by President Dr. Hjalmar Schacht of the German Reichsbank. There was a dash of Roosevelt and more than a tang of Dawes in certain words spoken by Dr. Schacht, last week, which caused prices on the Berlin Bourse to break and go crashing down harder and lower than at any time since...