Word: dress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Philander Knox and Henry Cabot Lodge I started the depopularizing of Woodrow Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations Covenant before they reached the Senate. No charge could have been more unjust or illegal.* Yet this week, as the Senate geared itself for high-powered, full-dress debate on Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, "secrecy" faced Franklin Roosevelt as a charge and an issue likely to impede his National Defense program and other important legislation. No such giants of debate as Woodrow Wilson faced loomed against him. Instead of Henry Cabot Lodge I, Philander Knox...
...dress hall, dancing will be from 10 to 3 o'clock, and will be preceded by a steak dinner earlier in the evening. During the diner hour the House has provided music and entertainment for the Puritan frolickers...
...trousers. A typical day's schedule from then on: breakfast, 6:20; sick call, 7; inspection, 7:15; to work at 7:30, off an hour for lunch, off work at 4 p.m.; mail at 4:30; change to Army issue olive drab or khaki for formation and "dress inspection" (instituted a year ago to spruce up the corps) at 5 p.m. Last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt authorized a new forest green uniform, to be issued next fall-when the corps may be not only distinctive but permanent...
...with its caviar, they actually get a larger quantity of big-time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists know what prices they are fetching. Manager Judson keeps his own books, and keeps them to himself...
...reason for Composer Ives's long obscurity is his horror of publicity. Though he has lived and worked in the midst of Manhattan's hubbub, he has never taken any part in the city's musical life. He never goes to concerts, abhors evening dress, is mortally terrified of being photographed. He never reads daily newspapers, and no journalist has ever succeeded in interviewing...