Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Button & Co. There was a well-preserved gentleman of some 67 summers, upon whose watch-chain hung a small gold ivy leaf-Arthur Hawley Scribner, who with his older brother Charles has carried on the business begun by their father in 1846. The swarthy gentleman whose dress, manner and accent bespoke the complete cultured cosmopolite was Alfred A. Knopf, master of the coursing Borzoi hound; the handsome lady with him -Mrs. Knopf...
...recalled that the demented woman, now 50, once said that she attempted to commit suicide "for the glory of God." Sitting in her cell at Rome, her face and neck scratched, her dress untidy, she declared: "Supernatural forces entrusted me with the lofty mission of attempting to kill Mussolini...
Arrangements for the opening night were completed Sunday afternoon with the arrival of the elaborate colonial costumes which play an important part in sustaining the Revolutionary atmosphere of the piece. Last night the cast wound up its five weeks of intensive preparation with the final dress rehearsal...
...scenery and costumes for the show arrived last night and the first dress rehearsal, at which pictures of the entire cast will be taken, is to be held Sunday afternoon. Although the plot has not yet been divulged, a general idea of the show can be gleaned from the reports which have come...
...less vigorous position than the American he had probably seen "The Young Person in Pink", For Gertrude Jennings' play, now in its first week at the Copley, is certainly insipid, if not devitalizingly vapid. Three acts of gentle farce, it rests its right to existence on a pink dress, a skit in the best Hyde Park cockney, and--at least in America--on Alan Mowbray's smile. To say, "The smile's the play," is not to vaporize. It is the truth. And all the more surprising is this smile when one realizes the position that gentleman...