Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well, she's here at least. Miss America of 1938, arriving at nine this morning, the dimpled darling that these great United States have temporarily taken into their hearts. At first we couldn't see what they were raving about. She isn't like most girls. She doesn't dress smartly or tell dirty jokes the way debutantes do; she doesn't drink or do the Big Apple. She isn't even beautiful; we spent two days trying to discover if she used make-up. She didn...
...moves off while the full feed belt behind fidgets for its turn. There is no hidden sheen here. No sheen in the clothing, at any rate. They are impeccable--the soft white spat, glove, nosegay--the starchy white shirt, collar, handkerchief--the black topper and morning dress coat--the sparkling shoes, still black on the soles--the pin-stripe trousers breaking at the proper inch above the instep--the soft, luxuriant Ascot--and concealed somewhere in all this the wallet, the very full wallet, the wallet full of grandfather's money (rest him), or father's money (good...
Delousing stations (where soldiers bathed and their clothes were boiled) were part of the standard military equipment of the World War. Every member of the American Expeditionary Force, before he was permitted to reembark for the U. S., was obliged to strip, scrub and dress in lice-free clothes. Only by such drastic means could Army doctors be sure of preventing the transmission to the U. S. of the louse-carried disease of typhus. And once typhus appears among dirty human beings huddled together in unclean army camps, trenches, jails, poorhouses, hospitals or ships, they die by thousands. Typhus, more...
Despite her humorless yen to dress her poems in proud, premature long pants, Poet Rukeyser succeeds, in The Book of the Dead, in giving a clear flash of what makes the contemporary U. S. hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling...
What to do about this deplorable contrast between private and Governmental honesty Author Scherman makes less clear. The essential thing, he suggests, having summed up a laissez-faire program that looks suspiciously like Adam Smith in modern dress, is to "raise the standards of economic literacy among...