Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knew to be received in a Papal audience a woman must have on a black dress with high neck and long sleeves and that she must wear a black veil. Well, I had a black crêpe de Chine dress with long sleeves left over from last winter, which I had had all pressed and cleaned by the tailor, and it was hanging in my closet. I bought a small black felt hat, new black slippers, a small black veil, black hose and black gloves. I packed these things in a sort of 'sacred apart' from...
Next day Miss McDowell got dressed, and "it was said I 'looked like a nun.' I hope I did because every nun I know looks like a saint. . . . I also carried with me several small sacred objects. . . . One was a small silver crucifix. I have since arranged with my family to be buried in the black dress and with this crucifix in my hand...
Swarming into their provincial capital at Edmonton last week, breezy, homespun Alberta citizens witnessed a low-hat, soft-collared inauguration exactly to their taste. Some of the legislators present were in sweaters. None of their wives ventured evening dress. The King's representative, Lieut.-Governor William Legh Walsh, who once grubbed for gold as a Yukon prospector, appeared in a grey suit and blue shirt to induct as Premier the mystically magnetic Calgary High School principal whose year-old Social Credit Party has just smashed all others in Alberta, winning 56 out of a possible 63 seats...
...enforced church attendance at the Naval Academy has done more than anything else toward alienating naval officers from the church. There they are forced to put on uncomfortable full-dress uniforms and march to church each and every Sunday of the academic year. Very few, after such treatment, ever set foot in a church of their own free will after graduation...
...deaths of Will Rogers and Wiley Post, Arthur Brisbane hopped off from Newark on his first transcontinental flight. From Cleveland he wrote, ''The stewardess-hostess-trained nurse, who is here to take care of you, has perfect teeth, very fine yellow-grey eyes and a green dress." Said he upon landing at San Francisco, ''Flying is reading the country by the page while land travel is spelling out the letters...