Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nice little téte-à-téte chat. This missive somehow got into the hands of her father. . . . When the day and hour for the tea arrived and the Prince came hoping to find 'dear Mary' alone, he found the old Earl in the full dress uniform of an admiral, cocked hat in hand, ready to receive him at the top of the red-carpeted steps leading from the street. . . . The Prince in after years often told this story himself...
...hastened to Washington for the ceremony. He and the other members of the Cabinet were accommodated with seats on the platform; all wore white trousers and blue coats with the exception of the two new members-Attorney General Stone and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur-who were in formal dress...
Among the younger Hungarian dramatists whose wares will Come to Broadway are Ladislaus Fazekas with Four Gentlemen in Dress Suits; Attila Orbok with The Comet; Ladislaus Fodor, whose Marguerite of Navarre will be called Successful Despite Himsclf; and Nicholas Vitez in whose Where Is the Drama? Leo Ditrichstein will star...
...Gerona, in Catalonia, a priest who chid a girl for her "indecent" dress was set upon by the girl's mother, was haled before a Judge. The Judge recognized the girl as his daughter, persuaded the Governor of the Province to fine the priest 500 pesetas...
Sued for Separation. Jack Rose, prominent vaudevillian, by his wife, Janette Lawson Rose, former Follies girl. She charges that he beat her, and once in a Chicago restaurant tore the dress from her back. In explaining the suit, Mr. Rose said: "I am a very homely man, and women take no interest...