Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production of "The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress offers a wonderful chance for experimentation on the stage," declared Ralph Bunker, yesterday to a CRIMSON reporter. Mr. Bunker was formerly instructor in voice technique and public speaking here, and now is playing the part of Winkle in "Pickwick" at the Majestic Theatre...
...audiences could understand Greek, their interest was caught and held by the relentless sweep of the tragedy of the unhappy king. There were so many students who desired to see the play, but who were unable to get tickets, that the committee in charge allowed them to attend the dress rehearsal...
...Book of Acts is as full of names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding grapes, quiet grey eyes, legs "supple as the bending barley," and all the gems and moving animals and rare wonders...
...nine years this sturdy, thick-set man with greying hair, who plays golf and tennis as zestfully as he works at physics, delved into the mysteries of atoms, ions, electrons. Often he strode into his laboratory at midnight after dinner or the theatre. For hours, in impeccable evening dress, he tried to measure infinitesimal electrons on oil droplets less than one-thousandth of an inch in diameter, checked his results many a time. At last he isolated the ion, studied its ways and habits. For this he received the Nobel Prize (TIME...
...their error last week when attorneys for President von Hindenburg began suit for libel against the Communist newspaper Rote Fahne (Red Flag) because of a cartoon it published on April 1. Rote Fahne depicted a huge bull standing before three white-clad butchers, with the caption: Hindenburg in Civil Dress Reviews the Companies of Honor on Remembrance Day. Whatever this meant (and the President's attorneys professed ignorance) it at least implied that the Herr President resembles a bull, an allegedly libelous implication. As the suit got under way last week, the Berlin police destroyed on their own responsibility...