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Word: dress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Taming of the Shrew", following the lead given by the modern dress production of "Hamlet" performed last year, will be presented by the club in contemporary costume. Rehearsals are now well underway, and Edward Massey '15 who is again conducting the Dramatic Club is confident of a well turned production. The cast will be announced this week, and tickets for all the performances will go on sale shortly afterward...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB ANNOUNCES DATES OF SPRING PRODUCTION | 4/12/1927 | See Source »

...vote no-how." Miami's 40,000 Negroes never fret much about white men's elections, but somehow they had, counted on marking crosses on nice new ballots in the April elections. A committee of three leading citizens of the black belt, suave in manner, impeccable in dress, called on the city commission. The Hannibal of the trio made a dignified advance. He said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEGROES: No Booth | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...will the proud possessor of a "well turned calf" hide it in flapping cylinders, or at best set it forth to little advantage under plus fours. It is only a question of time, and of the advent of a man of spirit, before the black and white of evening dress gives way to silken hose and satin knee-breeches, vests of gorgeous brocade and cloaks of rainbow colors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SILKS AND SATINS | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

...father pleading for loyalties which mean nothing to his children. The conflict is an old one, but it acquires from its Jewish setting a certain concentration as well as dignity and pathos, the rift between father and sons being so easily enhanced by differences of education, speech, and dress. The old man is an admirable mixture of hard good sense and other worldliness; his imagination is alive with the symbols of his religion and race, and he speaks tenderly of early surroundings, of privation and piety and study, of a world which, one is led to feel with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MENORAH SOCIETIES TO PRESENT THREE PLAYS | 4/9/1927 | See Source »

Arrangements for the opening tonight were completed Saturday afternoon with the arrival of the elaborate Elizabethan costumes which play an important part in giving the old English atmosphere of the play. At the conclusion of the formal dress rehearsal held last night, Augusts Barratt, coach of the production, declared that he was more than gratified with the work of the cast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURTAIN RISES ON NEW PUDDING PLAY | 4/6/1927 | See Source »

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