Word: dress
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...income. The settlers, in turn, imported Nigerian laborers, who now make up two-thirds of Fernando Poo's 60,000 population. Other mainlanders from as far away as Sierra Leone moved to the island to set up business. Today, hundreds of the island's people are wealthy, dress formally for dinner and send their children off to Spain for college...
...York to help Lord & Taylor launch a collection of 22 pieces copied from his spring and summer show. The lift-off was phenomenal. Some of the originals in fact, never made it to the show; Mrs. Alan Jay Lerner made off with a $1,000 caped white dress with a jeweled belt before it hit the runway. In five days the store sold copies of more than 400 dresses ($90 to $175) and 300 coats ($160 to $495), plus hundreds of shoes and berets. Favorite accessory: a six-foot-long floating Isadora Duncan sea of bias silk twill. One item...
...Douglas Harriman Kennedy, 14 months, stayed home.) Their hair brushed to Sunday-school neatness, wearing their dress navy blues, mother and children were exhibits A through J of the Kennedys' lean physical vitality...
PUPLIC opinion is not the only explanation for the deans' hyperactivity. They want their students to dress modestly and attend church regularly. The dean of men, a Baptist lay preacher, chided Radcliffe tutors for wearing "shorty-short skirts." Unless his eyes were deceiving him, he told us, Shaw girls' hems had risen since we came. If anything, his tone was apologetic: he seemed only to be expanding on Southern Baptist morality in an attempt to outshine the white middle-class variety...
...father came upstair screaming, telling me to get out of the bed, and lets go. Go where I asked. Usual when he starts screaming I was in for a beating. But this time I didn't see a belt, so I was off in that department. I was dress and ready to go before he could say (my name). He had a speech dilemma. I ran downstairs, and asked Mom what's wrong with Pop. She only reply: What is right with...