Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: Again on the subject of military dress-TIME, May 3, p. 18, column i: ''Filty thousand Britons ... to gaze at the Royal Horse Guards in glistening breast plates and scarlet tunics. . . ." Because of their distinctive costume and the title of their colonel, the Royal Horse Guards were known as the Oxford Blues soon after their formation in 1661. Today the supplementary official title of the regiment and the one by which it is commonly known is The Blues...
...have three birthday parties. For besides belonging to Canada, the Crown and Medicine, they also belong to a tremendous public whose agents pay good money to witness their doings. Three weeks ago for still cameras and four weeks ago for newsreels, this week's party was fully dress-rehearsed...
Emilie and Marie each have 17 teeth, the others 16. They can now brush their own teeth, comb their own hair, dress themselves completely (except for shoe-tying), go to the toilet alone. They feed themselves and for the past month have been carrying their empty dishes from the table to the pantry...
...relief of suffering, anywhere at anytime, is a worthy goal; but to dress it up in a costume and use it for skirt behind which to hide political convictions is to use name of charity in vain. Edward F. Whitney...
...Monday the dress rehearsal was staged, and it went off like clockwork except for slight difficulties among the harnessing group. For at least two of the horses refused to submit to amateur harnessers, and one of the beasts created a small panic by promptly lying down when his girth was tightened by inept hands...