Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gown was of point d'Angleterre over cream satin, with a court train of the same lace. Her veil was of tulle with a circlet of pearls about the brow and held in place by a spray of orange blossoms on each side. She wore long sleeves, and her dress came within ten inches of the floor. Her bouquet was voluminous with white orchids and lilies of the valley. She wore a string of pearls...
...Coolidge received 14 Italian women and from their hands a hand-spun, hand-woven woolen dress made by the Mothers' Club of an industrial school in Boston. Twelve Hungarian ladies from Cleveland presented her with a hand-made lace centrepiece...
...does not dress well. Her choice of models seems to some women inexplicable, for her tone combinations clash violently among one another and with her own coloring. . . . Perhaps, if she had an individual income, she could do better; at least she would not have to exclaim to society reporters at White House receptions: 'Don't be looking me over. I've worn this gown at two other receptions...
...Have you no reservation, sir?" It is a stock question in certain "Goyim" (Christian) hotels which discriminate against Jews. The dapper clerk, a trained ethnologist, addresses it to any prospective guest whose name, dress, manners or lineaments might indicate that he is a Jew. U. S. Jews, many of them wealthy, finely educated, have heard this question, turned away from the desk, and had the bellboy carry their bags back to the taxicab...
While the Quakers (the Society of Friends), in yearly meeting at Philadelphia, thought about abandoning their traditional uniformity of dress (now not rigidly insisted upon) for a greater emphasis on uniformity in spiritual life...