Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what must be taken as a coincidence, the arrival in Hankow, China of Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr., dress designer turned huntress, with her second captive baby giant panda in hand, was admirably timed to advertise the publication of her book about her first successful panda expedition (TIME, Dec. 7, 1936).* A womanly book, full of distaff concern with clothes, medicines, the handsomeness of hunters, The Lady and the Panda gives credit for taking panda No. 1. Su Lin, where credit is said to be more than due-to Chinese Professional Hunters Jack and Quentin Young (Yan Di Lin). Businesslike...
...Gleason School of Music," "Good's Riding School, Inc.," "Gordon College of Theology and Misions," "Graves Dress-making School," "Grove Hall Auto Schools Co." and "Harvard University...
...externals of the situation receive all the attention. The husband used to do some indelicate scratching; he still does, but with his wife's body. The husband has to fit a dress on a friend, and the wife gets indignantly repulsed for interfering. The husband goes into the bathroom and comes out saying, "How inconvenient." The wife gets arrested for walking into a woman's wash room in a hotel. The wife has to tell the husband that he's going to have a baby. Similar situations of varying degrees of crudity and subtlety, with a preponderance of the former...
...reason to wish that his wife had not burbled, "I used on General Franco all the sob technique I learned in my years on the stage." In appealing by letter to Franco to save Whitey, Mrs. Dahl enclosed a picture of her handsome self in a low-cut evening dress, afterward claimed to have received a reply in which the General wrote "your obedient servant kisses your foot...
...diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife of the Austrian Ambassador: "Do you know the kind of woman who always wants to be the centre of social interest? She is afraid of mice, she loves cats, she tumbles down, she burns herself, she upsets her tea on her dress-all this happened in her house the other day. . . . Still, these are graceful blunders. The most serious seems to me to be-talking sentiment. I find it much more natural for her to fall down on a perfectly smooth carpet." Witty as Dorothea was, by the time they have finished...