Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, 500 women were "graduated" from the Speakers' School of the Women's National Republican Club. Said Mrs. Grace Vanamee, conductor of the classes: "Dress plainly and avoid cosmetics when you are about to make a speech...
...gave her a check for $1,200 to buy dresses in Manhattan. She saved $1,000 of it. Dress was not one of her luxuries. She would walk aristocratically into a distinguished hotel wearing a rusty gown, pinned up the back, shabby, "at the elbows." She was an aristocrat, but chiefly in manner. She did not speculate with her wealth, but invested in railroads, in Standard Oil. She was of Quaker stock, which may explain her frugality, but she turned Episcopalian. She married Edward H. Green. She replied to Suffragists who requested her aid: "I do not approve of Suffrage...
Luncheon was served in the State Dining Room, and lasted one hour. The entire meal was one of great simplicity ?a luncheon "such as the Coolidge family often shares." The President was dressed in a gray suit with a mourning band on one sleeve. Mrs. Coolidge wore an all-white dress. The Prince was attired in a grey-blue lounge suit with white pinstripes, a white handkerchief with a blue border stuck in his breast pocket...
Koussevitzky has always been more concerned with the reality of achievement than with the appearance of it. For diverse interests he substitutes his great and lonely passion; he indulges no hobbies, tolerates in himself no eccentricities. In countenance, he is grave; in dress and manner, he resembles a cosmopolitan man of business. Only his hands and eyes admit the implication that this business has to do with Art. He was born in Tver, in Northern Russia, and received his first employment as double bass in the Moscow Imperial Opera. He rose to become a conductor and toured Europe with...
...Dream Girl was Victor Herbert's last legacy to the world. Last year, a short time before he died, he composed the score which, for various reasons, was delayed in process of production. Possibly the delay was fortunate, for thereby the Shuberts found the time and patience to dress it with deserved distinction. Fay Bainter was recalled to musical comedy to play the star, and Walter Woolf, the finest baritone currently singing light music, was engaged to be her lover...