Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exposition buildings are likely to find them unfamiliar; they are pictures that have adorned, in reproduction, millions of book-plates, art calendars, folios, and frontispieces. There is Whistler's restrained and noble picture of his mother, the old lady folded in silence like the fall of her quiet dress, hearing voices fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher...
...nation whose ambassadors include such glamorous gentlemen as John Gilbert, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson; such intoxicating ladies as Miss Swanson, Miss Naldi and Miss Daniels should create alarm. Domestic life in Hollywood is not generally accepted as typical of domestic life in points north and east; nor is the dress affected by members of Mr. Sennett's school entirely representative of American womanhood...
...emigrants' disillusion starts with Ellis Island and, if one cares for further investigation, ends-only with the Golden Gate. Even Hollywood, the alabaster Hollywood, has its conventional citizens, men who wear something besides chaps or full dress, women who do not appreciate the potentialities of a tiger skin. Like amusing children, the movies are a national pet; like amusing children, they often annoy the neighbors...
...course, Mr. Mills might return from the opera some evening, take off his top hat and dress coat, roll up his sleeves, and write a song that would surge above the glamor of "The Sidewalks of New York." But down on the lower East Side the old grind organs still throb and Tammany Hall politicians light cigars, lean back in squeaky chairs, smile at one another, say: "He cannot...
...green-clad woman stood upon the Dolphin's deck beside Sir Austen. She was the onetime Ivy Muriel Dundas, his wife - by royal creation a Dame of the British Empire (TIME, Dec. 14). When the purple orchids were handed on board she pinned them bravely upon her green dress. With the orchids came a card: "Benito Mussolini sends his kindest happy greetings to Lady Chamberlain...