Word: dress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...part of the frozen frivolities of the winter carnival in St. Paul, respectable citizens traditionally dress up in red devil costumes, smear their faces with coal-black grease paint and ride around town on a fire engine. The revelers, collectively known as "Vulcanus Rex and his Krewe," then swarm into offices and stores, firing blank cartridges from pistols and grabbing every woman in sight for a smudgy kiss...
...them get married?" wailed one viewer. "Four times I've bought a new dress for the wedding. Four times I've bought champagne...
China furnishes proof that total revolution does not necessarily bring equality of the sexes. Women dress like men, walk like men, work like men, but, with the exception of Chairman Mao's wife Chiang Ching, few have attained positions of importance in the country...
...father that she and Pinson had been married and became even more desperate to make her fantasy real. She considered hiring a mesmerist to hypnotize Pinson into submission. She swore she was pregnant, and appeared in front of Pinson and his men with a pillow tucked under her dress, holding out handfuls of money. To avoid further scandal, Pinson was posted to Barbados...
Adele followed him. Pinson had married, but now she was beyond caring. Her madness was regenerative, its own reason for being. Adele wandered through the native quarter in Leopoldine's dress, now torn and filthy. When she saw Pinson again, she looked through him without recognition. She had turned her own life into a perfect, dreadful paradigm of 19th century romanticism...