Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mushroom Woodcock ("This is a dish like the basic black dress: you can garnish it with accessories...
Princess at the Window. For the first time since 1938, Parliament was opened with full-dress ceremonial. Red robes trimmed with white fur, cutaways, top hats and striped trousers were taken out of mothballs or rented at high prices. The Household Cavalry who would escort the royal coach got ready to don their plumed helmets and breastplates, white breeches, high black boots, red and blue tunics. The Imperial State Crown was taken from...
Whitefish & Milk. Alighting at the Palace of Westminster, the King went into his robing room in the House of Lords, put on his crown and his ermine-trimmed, purple velvet robes; the Queen hooked the broad blue ribbon of the Garter over her white crinoline dress. Entering the chamber, they were preceded by heralds and court functionaries whose stiff tabards made them look like kings and jacks in a pack of cards. In all this splendor, stubby Herbert Morrison, in his black cutaway, stood out like the ace of spades. But Commoner Morrison, present in his capacity as Lord President...
Stokowski hired him as a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, but his dress suit cost as much as he earned. Then he went into the Army a private, and came out a lieutenant, and made enough money singing Red Ball Express in the Broadway G.I. hit Call Me Mister to pay for an encouraging Town Hall debut. His springboard to Aïda: success in Mexico City on the radio and as soloist at President Miguel Alemán's official dinners...
Sealed Verdict (Paramount) is a sorry-example of Hollywood's new trick of using authentic backgrounds to dress up synthetic stories. The scene is a battle-scarred German city where the U.S. Army is trying war criminals. Through the realistic setting, it is all too easy to spot the old movie corn and the gimmick...