Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lope when not lounging in the lobby of the executive offices. He referred to the President as "the boss," called others, including Cabinet members, by their first names and chatted in equally friendly fashion with Ambassadors and messenger boys. Although he had a dinner suit to wear on dress occasions he incorrigibly chewed gum no matter how elegant his surroundings...
...cures for sneezing which Mary Cleer was urged to try included wearing a "magnetic" letter pinned to her night dress, looking down the bridge of her nose at pieces of bright silk held close to the tip, clipping an electrified wire to her nose and toes, getting tattooed, taking snuff...
...named Max Ernst. Cologne still remembers the dada exhibition organized by Max Ernst and Hans Arp in 1920. The entrance to the exhibition was through a public lavatory. Gallery-goers were given hatchets to smash any pictures they did not approve and a young girl in a white communion dress stood on a platform reciting obscene poems...
Tickets, priced at $1.50 per couple, and $1.25 for stags, may be be purchased from members of the dance committee or secured at the door. Formal dress is optional...
...absolutely correct formal wear, the full dress with a higher waist cut is the correct thing. Tails should drop to a point exactly opposite the knee in the back. Most lapels are of dull grosgrain silk...