Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reason Mr. Cummings stayed in Washington so long was the good time lively, quick-tongued Mrs. Cummings had as a Cabinet wife, a time which culminated in her court presentation at Buckingham Palace in a bright red dress.* Washington will miss their parties. The main reason he wanted to get back to his private practice was to make some more money before he got too old.† Last summer, having passed 68, he swore that this year would be his last in harness but the final decision was not reached quite as planned...
...guerrillas also have a transvestite stunt that has taken toll on the Japanese. Chinese youths dress as girls, lure Japanese into the countryside, where waiting guerrillas fall upon them...
...casting has not yet been completed for the comedy of manners which will be presented in modern dress for the first time in America...
...dress their status with respectability, the eight Nazis formed a parliamentary "Club of German National Socialist Deputies and Senators of Czechoslovakia." Its announced aims: to promote peaceful relationships between persons of German blood remaining within the republic and to develop "understanding" between Germans, Czechs, Slovaks and Ruthenians. Its probable aim: to keep the Sudeten Nazi caldron bubbling as long as it is useful to Adolf Hitler...
...First theatrical performance in the Western Hemisphere took place in Mexico (c. 1530). First definitely recorded Colonial performance, at Accomac, Va. in 1665, was raided by cops. The actors had to dress up and give a second show before the judge, who acquitted them...