Word: dress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weber's time switch failed to work. Scarcely had 10 o'clock struck before the street was full of furious Nazis. They smashed Weber's window and his lights, then sloshed buckets of black paint over his dainty dress goods, daubed the whole shop and made matclhwood of the counters. "When you consider," said a spokesman for the Ministry of Propaganda & Public Enlightenment next morning, "that in the entire city of Berlin only this Jew, this unspeakable Weber, had to be dealt with, the vast obscuration maneuvers can be called an entire success...
Shaved, bathed and about to dress for dinner at the Washington home of Attorney General Cummings, Author Herbert George Wells was dismayed to find that he had left his white waistcoat in Manhattan. All stores were closed. Author Wells called vainly upon the hotels, then telephoned his good friend George Creel, War-time head of the U. S. Propaganda Bureau. Democrat Creel was wearing his only white waistcoat to the Cummings dinner. He, however, called Chairman Henry P. Fletcher of the Republican National Committee. Soon Republican Fletcher's waistcoat arrived-without buttons. Author Wells clutched it about his middle...
...dark, unplucked eyebrows, and a soft round face. Her eyes change from sea green to deep blue according to her mood. She is tall and slim and carries her clothes well. Her reserved manner has a regal touch about it and she is probably at her best in court dress. She is an ardent horsewoman, automobilist, swimmer, tennis player, dancer, well trained in languages, music, painting, sculpture, cooking, sewing and domestic science...
With a bit of shamrock pinned underneath her dress and a little flat prayer book in the sole of her slipper, Mary Elisabeth Moore, a 21-year-old New Yorker, made her debut last week as the youngest member of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills...
...acting last night was hampered by the usual distractions of a dress rehearsal, but Miss Clara Butler, playing the lead, gave a more than creditable performance. At home in a lightly dashing role, she carefully ignored for the most part the flickering lights, the misplaced props and the banana, which took the place of a meal...