Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boulavadier From the Bronx" and "An Evening With You' are the principal tunes which serve to make this just another musical offering from Hollywood. The former becomes quite an entertaining number when Joan Blondell, in an evening dress very appealing to the eye, and Oakie, resplendent in rented tails, attempt a dance routine...
...League of Women Shoppers was born last June when a few ladies left a tea at the home of Mrs. Arthur Garfield Hays to call on Nathan Ohrbach, who runs a big bargain dress store on Manhattan's Union Square. Merchant Ohrbach had had a strike on his hands for months. To their great surprise the ladies left his office with the realization that they had suddenly settled the Ohrbach strike. Mrs. Hays was promptly chosen as first president of the League of Women Shoppers. Among early members were Writers Genevieve Taggard and Josephine Herbst. The organization developed...
...heralded by reports that he possessed only one speech and no evening clothes, Smith Wildman Brookhart went to the U. S. Senate as a bull-shouldered, thick-skinned representative of Iowa. Both reports proved correct. His speech was an impassioned attack on the Interests, the Railroads, the Wets. His dress at swank Washington parties was a plain sack suit. His pugnacious cowhide radicalism nettled patrician Senators, and in a close election contest in 1924 the Senate chose to seat his opponent. In retaliation he won a smashing re-election in 1926. In 1932, annoyed by disclosures that he had placed...
Thence, this day to seek the sweet tradition. So as a Vagabond I to dress, very handsome, in mousey grey trousers, new ascot to match, and glad was the woman to fetch the cutaway: "Not in a year has it been out", and so with shining topper and swinging stick, I to church and my cloak blowing in the breeze...
...picture of which Doris Lee is fondest is The Runaway, showing a girl in a streaming yellow dress gripping the mane of a bolting horse. The Haunted House is a dilapidated structure, surrounded by grim and groping trees, with all the windows on the third floor boarded up except one from which a wildly gesticulating woman is leaning. One of the best is The Widow, an Amazonian figure with feet planted wide apart, grasping the bridles of two snorting, dancing horses. There is one nude, a pert, heavy-legged girl with fruity lips, combing a mop of chocolate-colored hair...