Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Into the flag-decked station rolled the royal train. King George in the dress uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, with the green ribbon of the Order of the Thistle, stepped out followed by Queen Elizabeth in forget-me-not blue, his two excited little daughters. Elizabeth & Margaret Rose, in strawberry pink coats. Louis Stewart Gumley, Edinburgh's Lord Provost stepped forward, tendered the city's keys to King George on a red satin cushion, bade him welcome to his "ancient and hereditary kingdom of Scotland...
...many times before. Her repertoire runs from Renaissance pavans and sarabands to formal, dignified Mozart, and striped, angular performances like the Study in Counter Rhythm for Dancers and Percussion Instruments which she put on at the Dell in 1934. In that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under her heels, striped to look like a Mexican century-plant. Ben Stad called on her to dance the slow-moving steps of the Middle Ages at his Philadelphia Festival of the Society of the Ancient Instruments last spring...
Thereafter the Marines busy themselves with little but tap dance routines arranged by fanciful Busby Berkeley. Never at sea, they cleverly oblige dance-hall patrons by performing "right, dress!" and "squads-right" in full Marine regalia. The Marines otherwise enliven Shanghai night life by their efforts to set up their own night club, are recalled to duty only in a final musical number. Songs: 'Cause My Baby Says It's So, The Lady Who Couldn't Be Kissed, The Song of the Marines...
...summer sun beat down into Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week upon a towheaded young woman who, whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit...
...until about six years later, after they had moved to Lincoln, that Father & Son Coryell began to dress like twins. Somewhat tentative at first, this custom speedily became systematic with the Coryells. When one buys a suit the other goes along and gets an identical one. Neither ever buys a necktie, a shirt or a pair of socks without taking a duplicate home. The Coryell taste runs to costumes of some audacity and each ensemble is numbered to save time in the morning. Whichever Coryell wakes up first telephones the other and says, "I'm wearing the 23 suit...