Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...carried to still greater lengths. Last Sunday evening the First Methodist Episcopal church of Lynn managed to gather three thousand people within its walls through the admirable device of showing movies to the congregation and advertising the affair beforehand with electric signs and a trumpeter in fancy dress...
...degree that millions of human legs have become almost atrophied. Students have to be transported across the campus lest they should arrive at their classes in a state of physical exhaustion. I was at an institution of learning some months ago where the boys turned on the victrola to dress by. A young man who cannot put on his shirt without being entertained can hardly be said to possess independent intellectual resources...
...Entrance is forbidden to women who are not properly dressed; that is to say, those who do not have the head covered and do not wear high-necked dress with long sleeves...
Critic Grattan first cited the eulogies of Mr. Page: "The greatest and noblest American since Lincoln"; "The most heroic American of the War period"; "An intense patriot" (thus Charles W. Eliot, John W. Davis, Admiral Sims, Colonel House, Edward W. Bok, William H. Taft in an ad- dress to the Trustees of the Walter Hines Page School of Inter- national Relations); "A great citizen He gave his life...
...outranks, surpasses all other South American opera centers. Its seating capacity is 3500- It has been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...