Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspapers produced by Vari-Type, without benefit of striking printers or linotype machines. Last week, in New Haven, the oldest U.S. college daily carried the experiment a step further. In its first issue of the new college year, the Yale Daily News (est. 1878) came out in a new dress that combined Vari-Type with photo-offset printing,* the first U.S. daily...
...Then, as I was getting into my dress clothes to attend one of the numerous receptions at the Club Centenario, a messenger showed up and gave me a small slip of paper with instructions to be at a corner of the Calle Estigarribia in the heart of downtown Asunción at 10 o'clock the next morning. There was no mention of whom I would meet there...
...work for a separate government for Indian Moslems. The walls of his meeting halls blazed with such slogans as: "Make the blood of slaves boil with the force of faith!" and "Make the small sparrow fight the big hawk!" He would stalk into meetings wearing his "political uniform"-native dress with a black astrakhan cap-and whip the Moslems into a frenzy. Sometimes, in his fury, his monocle would pop out of its socket. After meetings, he would go home, change to Western clothes and be again the suave Western lawyer...
Beauteous Kay Summersby, the onetime Mayfair dress model and WAC captain who drove Ike Eisenhower's staff car, had finished a book called Eisenhower Was My Boss. An excerpt from Kay's preface was used in a long blurb for the syndicated newspaper rights: "It is, in a way, a report to women, other women ... I was to work and eat and ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle...
...Voltaire's Camargo, who was the first dancer to shorten her skirts, and Marie Sallé, who, in 1734, shocked a London correspondent into reporting that "she has dared to appear . . . without pannier, skirt or bodice . . . Apart from her corset and petticoat, she wore only a simple dress of muslin draped about her in the manner of a Greek statue...