Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty herself wore pink. Her dress was studded with sequins; her hat was large and sprouted six ostrich plumes. A young gallant brought his mother over to see her. "I've always wanted to meet you," said the young gallant's mother. "My father, who was Barney Baruch's younger brother, was madly in love with you when you were on the stage." Piped young Talbot: "That's nothing. My grandfather had a crush on you, too." Replied Betty: "I remember him well. He and I were having a beer at Delmonico's the night...
Along about 1:30, the waiter slipped Betty the tab. It came to roughly $2,500. Betty wrote a check, and the party boisterously headed for fresh triumphs at the noisier Copacabana. Betty was having a wonderful time, even though the bottom of her dress was hanging in strips where people had trodden on it. But it was obviously getting too tiring for ladies like her mother. Her mother, Mrs. Robert J. Faulkner, is 95 and does not drink. Leaning on her cane and her daughter, mother was taken home...
...bitter and prices even higher than in Changchun." At Hsinmin the Nationalist lines end again. South of that rail city lies the most terrible san-pu-kuan stretch of all, the notorious Liu Ho Ko, or Willow River Ditch. This no man's land belongs to bandits who dress in yellow jackets and black pants, carry white knapsacks and oiled-paper umbrellas. They lie in wait along a willow-lined ditch, jump up with drawn revolvers, shout, "Don't make trouble! Hand over your money!" Those who have no money are cursed and beaten...
...Catholic Church had faced such laws before (in Canada and Mexico) and knew just what to do. Rather than allow schools to close for lack of teachers, said Bishop Vincent J. Ryan of Bismarck last week, nuns would be told to wear 'respectable secular dress. Some of the law's sponsors solicited support [by claiming] that it would keep Catholic sisters from teaching . . . [but] no law can, under the protection of our Constitution, discriminate against any teacher on account of religious membership or belief...
...news picture from Phoenix, Ariz, (see cut) gave many a U.S. citizen a fascinated sense of peeking into a neighbor's photograph album. It showed Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and daughter Anna Roosevelt Boettiger helping granddaughter Anna Eleanor Boettiger dress for her wedding last week to her college sweetheart, 25-year-old Van H. Seagraves...