Word: dress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dress makes him distinctive, too. The story goes that Curley came over to Cambridge at the outset of his career and bought a second-hand rich boy's suit from Max Keezer that he were for years as alderman and mayor. Now, you see him mostly in a cutaway; supposedly he once showed up in a tuxedo to shovel the first clod of earth for a foundation, complaining that he hadn't hat time to change his clothes after a formal luncheon...
...most inspired scenes need no sound at all. One such shows Lloyd, wearing one shoe and a-straw hat, pursuing his other brogan through a rainstorm as it is carried along in a gutter millstream to the inevitable sewer inlet. Later on, the hero inadvertently dons a magician's dress coat, complete with eggs, mice, sausage, rabbits, and the traditional squirting carnation, and has himself a time on a crowded dance floor...
Boston Symphony Orchestra Dress Rehearsal (Mon. 1 p.m., NBC). Charles Munch directing; Olin Downes, commentator...
...Hadji Mehmet. But even he died. Nothing is forever. When I was a child, there were seven of us in the village who went to school to learn to read and write from the hoca. I was the richest of the seven, and all I had was my dress and a pair of red slippers. Today even I am not satisfied with one dress and one pair of slippers. There are now so many of us who want, oh, so many small and big things...
...added spur was a four weeks' "Dress Yourself" contest. Salesmen got clothing prizes (ties, shirts, etc.) depending on what they sold, with the top prize a suit. At meetings once a week, salesmen could wear only what they had won. At the first meeting, some were barely decent. Last week. Joske's totted up results of the contest. In a month, $232,000 worth of Frigidaires had been sold-and 20 suits given out. Since the campaign started, Joske's has sold $750,000 worth, more than most big stores sell in a year...