Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze from the papier maché matrix made by his doctor, Antommarchi; innumerable letters, prints, cartoons, snuff boxes, medals, etc. Most of the exhibited items were from the Vignali...
Preparations for the production have been completed. Tomorrow afternoon representatives of the Pathe, International, and Fox News will be on hand at a full dress rehearsal to obtain motion pictures of the show. Invitations have been extended to the members of the "Queen High" and "Castles in the Air" companies to a theatrical tea to be given at the Club this week end in honor of the "Shoot the Works" cast. Invitations have already been sent out to patronesses, and the programs are being prepared...
...feminine-political-social position in Washington], I manage my onetime husband's large estates in Biltmore, N. C. Since my marriage to Senator Gerry of Rhode Island I go to the Capitol almost half as much as Mrs. Longworth. At balls I have heard it whispered that I dress like an empress...
...grammar when they conversed, and gravely lecture them upon the folly of wearing stays. . . . No village belle ever liked to own that she laced tightly, or that she wore a 'board,' as it was a tacit admission that her figure could not bear unaided the test of the Empire dress; consequently, brother's remarks would be received by his young friends with an injure! air, and a vehement protest against such a false accusation. Brother would then test their truth by dropping his handkerchief and requesting them to pick it up; if they wore a 'board' stooping would be impossible...
...where did he go then? That was what the police, the dress-suited detectives wanted to know. He had left, the doorman said, in a limousine. The law gave chase, to the limousine, to the charming youth, to the $10,000 bracelet of the doctor's wife which, vanishing from her arm, had caused the hue and cry. They found the limousine in front of a fine house. Thirty armed men forced their way in. "Please do not break anything," said the charming young man. He showed them ledgers filled with "donations" together with lists of the charities...