Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best of Latin American Presidents is at least half a dictator, and burly Agustin P. Justo of Argentina, although he loves to dress in the most correct cut of cutaway, is no better than the best...
Ballard and Son Donald declined to accept money from people who attended. After they hit their stride holding I AM meetings, however, the meetings have burgeoned with ushers in white, microphones, colored charts and pictures to illustrate the theology of the I AM Presence. Mr. Ballard dresses nattily, Mrs. Ballard, a handsome blonde, wears jewels and evening dress. They now hand out envelopes labeled I AM, Love Gift, and explain that they no longer deny to their followers the right to make contributions...
...Northwestern University's students did not need to look twice to identify the figure that stalked across their campus last week, wearing an enormous Chinese otter fur cap, a great Chinese otter coat and Chinese "alley cat" fur gloves. Only one man on any U. S. campus would dress like that. Exclaiming "Bill McGovern is back," Northwestern's delighted students rushed to register for his courses, its delighted professors whisked him off to the University Club to hear his newest adventures...
...legendary as his dress and habits is Bill McGovern's learning. He wrote a book on Japanese grammar, speaks twelve languages, is said to know more about John Galsworthy than the university's English department. Once University of Michigan's famed Pundit Jesse Siddall Reeves, fresh from a survey of the South American Chaco affair, went to lunch in Evanston's University Club, was soon questioning Bill McGovern for further in formation. Bill McGovern is now busy teaching Chinese to his four-year-old son. A friend gave him a bottle of Napoleon brandy...
Leonard Gribble told an unbelievable story of the murder of a self-made Englishman at a fancy-dress ball. In Midnight and Percy Jones Vincent Starrett told the story of the shooting of a Chicago concert singer and the solution of the crime by Riley Blackwood, a drama critic and annoying amateur detective...