Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years ago, he paid a visit to the U. S., delivered some lectures on "Form and Color in Art," "The Art of Costume," in which he denounced timorous pastel shades in dress, advocated the bravery of barbaric Russian colors. Everywhere society feted him. One dowager invited him to her parlor, which she had adorned for the occassion in crimson and gold. She herself was accoutred in emerald and azure; her children in clothes copied from Russian ballets. "How do you like this?" she asked. "Dear madame," he replied, "do you see me calling on you in golden trousers, red waistcoat...
...only wealth (in 1902, Mazzantini and his men cleared some $40,000 in three months in Mexico), but public honor and license such as is unknown even by ball-players and pugilists in the U. S. Wherever they go in public, they are known by their gorgeous dress (black broadcloth, scarlet sash, white hose, shiny pumps). It is an honor to sit with them in cafes, to speak with them or be owed money by them. After a fight, the town they are in is theirs? wine and women complete...
...vanishes. But many-a great many-Filipino politicians are not concerned with independence, for the advocacy of it gains their ends; and to achieve independence would deprive them of their easiest road to office. So they play with the independence idea and, with a true gift for the dramatic, dress it in a thousand garbs and adorn it with a thousand gestures. Now they squabble with the Governor General; now they send themselves a-junketing to Washington; always they play with the 1,000,000 peso "Independence Fund" voted annually by the legislature, from which they replenish their pockets without...
Last week, as sables and silks departed from Sherry's, sables and silks were invited, ever so politely by a young person near the door, to "dress a doll for a poor child." Sweet little dolls were exhibited, nude in their paste-board boxes. "For a poor child," thought kind sables and silks, just recently so well fed. What a nice idea! Yes, yes, of course...
...Financiers, famed beauties, serene old ladies. Day faded; lights pricked out along the Avenue. There was no stir, no chatter of departing guests in the still room-the gallery of M. Jacques Seligmann. Women of fashion, men of affairs, all strangely stayed when they should have gone home to dress for dinner. They did not go because they had lent their faces to the Loan Exhibition of the Society of the Art Patrons of America. In one corner stood Otto H. Kahn, international banker-a suave, stocky, domineering head by Sculptor Jo Davidson ; near him, in the twilight...