Word: dress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have the 1940 Olympics aboard the Queen Mary? The track must be lightning fast, thus enabling the contestants to dress like gentle-men-morning races in morning jackets, afternoon in frock coats and evening events in Tux or tails...
...common clothes moth, which goes under the full-dress name of Tineola bisselliella Hummel, is an oyster-colored insect with a wingspread of about ½ in. The larvae look like chestnut worms, eat furs, feathers and wool, spin translucent tubes in which they spend most of their time. They also spin webs on their feeding grounds, and, finally, cocoons from which the moths emerge. They may be inactivated by naphthalene in flakes or moth balls, sunlight, air, cedar chests, mothproof paper bags, temperatures below 40°. Under the Federal Insecticide Act it is a crime to sell (in interstate commerce...
...swank Hurlingham Club last month made the brave gesture of announcing that it would open its grounds to the public for the Westchester Cup series against the U. S. Before play started, an announcement in the London Times reassured readers who might have thought grey toppers were essential: "Dress: lounge suits." Unfortunately, the Hurlingham Polo Committee over looked the main feature of U. S. polo's sudden rise in popularity: 50? admission. Cheapest tickets to the first match in the two-out-of-three international series were priced last week at two guineas ($10.50). Good seats cost, as usual...
...dress in new white suit, whcih I am sore at my heart to find is too tight in the breeches, and, being very sleepy, droused most part of the way to South Station for meetings. But Lord! I did not expect the whole family tree to come. But just the same, very happy, and after many kisses and pretty words, to inform ourselves as to breakfast. So to the Copley and I sate next to my little cousin who be very sweet and fresh but, I fear, with little brains in her head...
...spite of its mystifying title and occasional turgidity, Private Number is more than a cliche in modern dress. Its interest does not lie in the love affair but in its exposition of the complicated backstairs politics of a big household. Wroxton's perpetual quarrel with the cook, his sly methods of bullying the chauffeur, his espionage operations with the downstairs maid, his scavenging the household's pay envelopes and extending his influence into the private lives of his employers are a competent addition to current institutional screen drama...