Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
...institution of the past, more vital and more enduring than any loyalty Americans have ever professed? Our cities and our states are not for celebrations, nor are our industries or our religions, but the memory of a college fills American streets every June with fanatics, who even dress like the Bantu natives of central Africa...
...Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, M. Rozejolev, attended wearing satin knee breeches and a jeweled sword. Ambassador Houghton was clad in ordinary evening dress...
...Honest Ignatz,"† though elected,** did not-according to gleeful correspondents-possess a dress shirt in which he could be inaugurated. Three days later-a shirt having been obtained and the ancient palace of the Polish kings well aired for the ceremony-he took the oath of office, while bluff brain-stormy Pilsudski lounged in a great carved chair, nearby, surrounded by his officers...
...Bruce went down the aisle followed by their attendants, with President and Mrs. Coolidge next in line attended by their military and naval aides in full dress uniform...