Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite story of Julia Kippen Jaffray's concerns a friend who sent her rayon dress to the cleaners and got back only buttons. The dress turned to jelly. Julia Jaffray is a Canadian-born spinster of some 50 years who has made a name for herself in prison reform as secretary of the National Committee on Prisons and Prison Labor. Miss Jaffray is also much interested in women's club work and for the past year or two she has been the spearhead of a women's club drive which last week had the rayon industry seething...
...hangings parted and a great brown woman emerged-she was the size of Fay Templeton in her Weber & Fields days, and she was even garbed similarly, in a rose satin dress, spangled with sequins, which swept away from her trim ankles. Her face was beautiful, with the rich, ripe beauty of southern darkness, a, deep bronze brown, like her bare arms. . . . She began her strange rites in a 'voice full of shoutin' and moanin' and prayin' and sufferin', a wild, rough Ethiopian voice, harsh and volcanic, released between rouged lips and the whitest of teeth...
...gilded trappings hung from above, no canvas masonry affronted the eye of the 1937 realist. The play, up-to-date in dress and interpretation, was the thing. The red-brick back wall was the only backdrop, the gadgets of a more formal theatre hung idle in the wings. The high loft, emptied of its scenery, lent itself to a grotesque play of light and shadow. Below, on a bare stage platform graded down toward the audience by three steps, the Mercury Theatre players enacted a sinister tragedy of dictatorship...
...American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in dandiacal English society. At any rate, his origins were mysterious. He was, perhaps, born in Les Cayes, Santo Domingo (now Haiti) in 1785. Little is known of him before he was 9, when he was legally adopted in France by one Captain Audubon, who said he was the child...
...tree, is bobbing on the waves. Another has weathered the blow in a beached lifeboat in which, while the hurricane raged, a child was somehow born. Madame de Laage shows what good breeding can accomplish by surviving the worst storm in cinema history without spoiling her light dress or losing the wave in her hair. She ends in the arms of her husband who, grateful, decides not to persecute Terangi further...