Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...infectious farmer-boy grin on hia gentle face, his thin unruly hair waving more thinly than of yore. In Washington to attentive audiences he propounded Democratic doctrine while he told them how to make an enlightened choice of a Presidential nominee. He said: "Fashions change in candidates as in dress. It is not probable we will go back to the Jefferson knee breeches or to Jackson in his fighting clothes, but the fashion next year will be the composite of the only three Democratic Presidents elected in the last 50 years-Tilden,* Cleveland and Wilson. Is there any significance...
...keeps to morality the higher is its grade." "Stood on barracks and looked off over the ocean as it lay basking in Moonlight's silvery rays. How grand the sight! Beautiful indeed." "I am called an obscene man." "Got home and found little wifey out. Found a dress partly done and I finished it on the machine for her and had the bastings out before she came. How she laughed." "Oh how can I express the joy of my soul or speak of the mercy of God." When he was not misspelling the journal of his days, Anthony Cornstock...
Last week in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria, Manhattan, 2,000 men and women in evening dress sat down to an expensive banquet. Each had paid $205 for the privilege-$5 for the food, $200 because Anne Morgan had an idea. There was, of course, a speakers' table, lifted not so much by carpenters as by its occupants-a half-dozen ambassadors, a sprinkling of ministers and delegates from the world's various corners, and Anne Tracy Morgan who thought nothing of summoning them. Coffee finished, they arose in diplomatic order to speak. Sir Esme Howard told...
...rose flat crepe street dress...
...green satin street dress...