Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the Road. When Padre Luis Leon entered the church to say the first Mass of the day, he discovered the desecration, hastily called police. The stolen jewels were only worth about $500 (the Virgin's $30,000 full-dress outfit is kept under lock except for days of special devotion), but they had to be recovered at once; the archbishop himself was paying a visit that day. Police Chief Luis Proafio forbade all cars to leave the village, went out to search with Padre Leon. Some miles down the road, they were hailed by a man standing with...
...months later, wearing a gingham dress, flat shoes and no makeup, Mindy landed a singing spot at New Rochelle's Glen Island Casino. In December 1946, Paul Whiteman signed her, took her on a nationwide tour with his National Guard radio show...
Celebrating their new status as householders (they just moved into their very own Clarence House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...
Things began to relax as soon as Pax was suspended last year. By last week the fast-paced barbotte, Montreal's pet dice game, was rattling away all over town, and bookies were easy to find. Montreal's fabulous oldtime bordellos (evening dress only) were long gone, but there were plenty of girls operating from tourist homes and rooming houses...
...acting out a burlesque on the whole school of Russian novelists. A few supporting players, including Ethel Barrymore, Agnes Moorehead and Frank Morgan, occasionally suggest what the film might have been-but only occasionally. At their worst, even the veterans lapse into the caricature of the fancy-dress ball...