Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play features 7th century situations in modern settings, modern dress by Bonwit Teller, a modern musical backdrop by Nicholas Van Slyck 2G, and the latest quotes from T. S. Eliot '10 in place of Herrick, Lovelace, and Suckling...
...Purple Passion (gin plus "anything else behind the bar that's not quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...
...Morristown, N.J., an enterprising theater manager touted Life With Father by persuading his doorman to dress up in an 1880s costume...
Soon after, as the news sang around the world, Great-Grandmother Queen Mary arrived in white evening dress and ermine, and Philip broached a bottle of champagne to toast the newcomer. "A spanking fine baby," said Grandfather George...
...Bach Cantata, the Harvard Club launched into several choruses from "Patience" and the audience caught on: they were to enjoy themselves, not to appraise. Whereupon the two groups of singers pushed into their concert with a gusto that belied the forbidding impressions created by their formal stance and ceremonial dress...