Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interests, painting and gardening. Paris appalled him. He is never known to have made a quotable remark. Manet and his friends Degas and Clemenceau could and did trade epigrams with the sharpest tongues of the Second Empire. He was Parisian to the core, a dandy in his dress...
Show. The New York Automobile Show opens this week, two months ahead of its traditional date. President Roosevelt asked the industry to advance its full-dress parade from winter to autumn in the in hope of evening up production, leveling out employment, extending the selling season. Automobile executives did not feel able to refuse the Administration's request after concessions made to them in the disputed Section 7A of the late NRA. With the early show and a pre-Christmas motor boom, fourth quarter sales may reach 900,000. Forecasts of 1936 production range from a modest...
...York, S. C., dressing for the funeral of his roommate, Negro Richard Moore who had been mortally stabbed, Negro Charlie Hymes discovered that Moore's kinsmen had taken Hymes's best suit to dress the corpse. Hymes put on Moore's stained suit, called a constable, confronted the kinsmen, demanded $15 for his suit back, then exchanged suits with the corpse and went to the funeral...
...answer to the numerous queries as to what is the proper dress for a roof garden party, the committee has announced that the affair will not be strictly formal. The dancing will be from 9 till 12 o'clock...
...faculty nor students. It consists entirely of a Board of Regents who administer the State's educational system, set the Regents Examinations, second in stiffness only to those of the College Entrance Board. But, being a chartered university, it also cherishes certain prerogatives. Among these are to dress up, make speeches, award honorary degrees. Last week President Frank Pierrepont Graves presented Dr. Peabody with the year's only degree, an L. H. D. (Doctor of Humanities...