Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although he has not had a new suit in two years, the Assistant President's wardrobe also includes: 1 tuxedo, 1 dress suit, 1 cutaway, 1 odd coat, 2 pairs of odd pants, 2 pairs of white pants...
...echoed throughout the Cantos are two ancient legends-the Homeric tale of Odysseus' journey through Hades, the Ovidian tale of the seamen who, while kidnapping Bacchus, were transformed to dolphins as their ship, becalmed, sprouted grape-laden vines. The legends appear indiscriminately in ancient. Renaissance and modern dress, according to whichever time or whatever place Poet Pound's eruditely literate, expatriated sensibilities lead him to be thinking about. The resultant confusion is only skin-deep -since to any man, anywhere, any time, life may seem like Hell; and some sea-change in men or matter may, anywhere...
...under the direction of 22-year-old Orson Welles, is noted for (1 the acting of Walter Hampden, 2 the faithful reproduction of Shakespearian costumes, 3 the fact that Julius Caesar is presented to New York audiences for the first time in ten years, 4 modern, up-to-date dress and interpretation, 5 its accurate use of Shakespearian English...
...wore no veil at all, revealing that she is of the pure Circassian type, more beautiful than has been represented in any of her pictures. Her short, slim, childish figure was clothed in a billowing white satin wedding gown." Worth of Paris charged the Egyptians $3,000 for this dress. Other eyes must have seen her too, for, still breaking tradition, she rode out incognito with Farouk to watch the fireworks...
...Powers does a splendidly subdued, Brutus, and the painful deliberation that characterizes the here is acted to perfection. Indicative of his disinteredness and his freedom from fanaticism, he is kept in civilian dress, whereas most of the conspirators are in uniform. This is one of the skillful touches of presentation...