Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Romero-Rojas was faultlessly attired in evening dress. From Manhattan it has been reported that Promoter Rickard will aid in pushing this Chilean to the top next Summer. Romero "is to receive $7,500 for his first bout [in the U. S.] with substantial increases if he makes good." When-and if-he fights Champion Dempsey, $100,000 will...
...Dress. Hirohito wore an upper cloak of red with a shade of yellow running through it. His loose trousers were of white silk with patterns of butterflies; his belt of black leather with carved stones. The sceptre and crown accompanied...
Nagako had many garments made in Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...
...Reichlin-Meldegg was formerly military commander of Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Both are now Franciscan monks, having taken the vow in Munich. The distinguishing characteristic of the Franciscan order is: Imitation of the public life of Christ, especially His poverty and simplicity- "A poor and scanty use of earthly goods." Their dress is brown robe with white girdle...
...would try an experiment with his newest acquisition in Manhattan, the New York Evening Post. The price of the Post is to be increased to 5? (from 3?). At the same time the paper will be enlarged to 24 or more pages and have an entirely "new type dress...