Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been stage-managed by Nazi leaders. But Cardinal Innitzer may have expected something of the sort. He has ceased flying a papal flag on his automobile, has had its license number changed. Last fortnight he ordered all priests, monks and nuns in his archdiocese to wear secular dress in the streets...
...From the Manure Pile. The News's touch with the common people is no accident, but the result of self-conscious effort on the part of its publisher, who is famed for his rough-&-ready dress, his brusque manners and his liking for rubbing shoulders with the proletariat in saloons and subways. A rich boy himself, Joe Patterson never got along with other rich boys, had made several sporadic efforts to become a man of the people before he found his chance as a publisher. From 1914 until 1925 he and his cousin, Robert Rutherford McCormick, shared the running...
...nearly a month the U. S. press has enjoyed a field day reporting the personalities, the plans, the doings and the dress of Britain's King and Queen for the benefit of kingless, queenless Americans. Last week it was the turn of the British press to report on the U. S. for the benefit of King George's and Queen Elizabeth's subjects. English newspapers made a thoroughgoing...
...Full dress suits, in color, minus collar & tie. Better still, an adaptation of the bullfighter's cock-o'-the-walk costume...
...best-selling Fashion Is Spinach, Elizabeth Hawes, petite, snip-witted, 36-year-old Manhattan dress designer, showed a chic hand with the muckrake as well as a sound knowledge of women's clothes. This time she plays Joan of Arc to clothesbound men. Few years ago Elizabeth Hawes discovered that clothes make the man miserable. She designed some collarless, tieless, pressless, lightweight, colorful models. Men nudged, pointed, but did not buy. In Men Can Take It, Miss Hawes relates with bright disgust what was wrong...