Word: dress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...golden days of politics are no more. In the present Senate there are but two members who dress with more formality than the average business man. The two exceptions are made by the cutaways of Senator Hiram Johnson of California and Senator Tom Heflin of Alabama. In addition, Mr. Heflin affects a fancy waistcoat...
...much could not be said of the galleries, crowded with "official ladies." There was Mrs. Coolidge in henna-colored dress and hat, with a coat of cocoa-colored velour, trimmed with fur. In another part was Mrs. Wood-row Wilson, gowned in black, with orchids at her waist. There were wives of seven or eight members of the Cabinet; also Miss Ailsa Mellon, representing her father. There was Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, wife of the Republican Floor Leader...
...World. Yet the right to a salute of nineteen guns, to ride in a coach and six, and to be honored as the dignity and power of his state would be honored, is not inconsistent with democracy. Indeed the American ambassador to St. James who in his simple evening dress was mistaken for a butler and commanded by a haughty European ambassador to "call my coach, sirrah!" would undoubtedly approve of the new policy of adapting American diplomatic manners and practices to the generally accepted standards...
...features of the production were the spectacular settings and direction for which Richard Boleslawsky, an alumnus of the Moscow Art Theatre, was presumably responsible. He fractured a number of Broadway traditions and demonstrated convincingly that a production need not be a musical extravaganza to merit a small fortune in dress and decoration...
...Maugham, retiring after a particularly amusing dinner party, stopped Jong enough between his collar and his braces to jot down the smartest of the evening's causerie. On second thought, the play is altogether too smoothly starched for that. Mr. Maugham must have written it in a full dress suit...