Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have the New Look; you have let down your hem; she has had that dress since...
Slowly, Anne walked through the hall on the arm of her uncle Erik Frederik Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
...British War Office was taking no chances last week. As thousands of sightseers milled about the Mall and the Horse Guards Parade for the first postwar full-dress Trooping the Color in honor of the King's official birthday,* the War Office called off the show. A curt official announcement blamed the weather. But the crowds stared suspiciously at the bright sun. What was up? Rumors whipped round that King George was flat on his back, .that Queen Mary was dead, that Princess Elizabeth had had a miscarriage, or that somebody had planted a bomb...
Sergei Prokofiev's little comic opera, The Duenna,* almost got lost in the shuffle. Finished in 1940, it had reached the dress rehearsal stage in Moscow when the war put a stop to it. After the war, it was put on in Leningrad and Prague, but the score was still in manuscript...
Yesterday was the big day for '33: an all-day outing at the Western Golf Club and the Class Dinner at the Continental. Today a luncheon in Adams House will precede the parade. The dress will include white trousers in striking uniformity; beyond this the secrecy which is traditionally practiced before the parade to lend suspense shrouds details...