Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Butler Wright, Assistant Secretary of State, immaculate in cutaway, ushered into the Blue Room at the White House, where the President, also in afternoon dress, was waiting, a gay troup. At their head was Emile Daeschner, new Ambassador from France. Behind M. Daeschner, came his staff all in uniform of the French Diplomatic service...
...cellists of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra sat and smiled. An angular gentleman in an ill-fitting dress suit, Wilhelm Furtwangler by name, who had just completed his farewell concert as guest conductor, was asking them to get up, to bow as he himself was bowing in gracious acknowledgment of the battering applause that assaulted his ears. But the cellists smiled at him; they beat with their right hands upon the claret-colored wood of their big fiddles to show that they, too, admired as much as the assembly which now, through the clapping, had begun to shout his name...
CANDIDA-A new dress for one of the Shavian standbys. Katherine Cornell adds her usual brilliant personality to a consistently capable cast...
Most famed of all this group that dreamed so long in the Northamptonshire house is Sir Joshua Reynolds' portrait of the Duchess of Devonshire. She stands against a marble balustrade, a flight of steps at her feet leading to a formal park. Her dress is cream colored, her coif, built up like a Chestertonian paragraph, is starred with pearls, garnished with plumes of red and grey; from her right arm depends a gauzy scarf. Walpole wrote of her: "She effaces all without being a beauty, but her youthful figure, lively modesty and modest familiarity make her a prodigy...
...made money are already beginning elaborately to forget how it was made, are beginning to employ as much unnecessary labour as possible, because it is expensive, and to change their fashions as often as costumiers can invent new ones, because to wear an obviously different style of dress every few weeks is a conspicuous way of showing that they can afford to waste money. There are other signs with which we are also familiar. No English public school can now compete with some American Universities in their enthusiasm for sport, and they are only following our English lead when they...