Word: dresse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Walker would rise about 10 o'clock and glance at the headlines," writes Fowler. "After three or four minutes with the big type, Walker . . . would . . . retire again . . . With pillows propped behind his back, he would make telephone calls, and . . . re-examine the newspaper headlines." Around noon he would dress and go out. He got a lot of mail, but, says Fowler, ,he "seldom read any of the thousands of letters sent to him over the years . . . seldom replied to those he did chance to read ..." Most of the essential work got done. Said New York's present mayor...
...Trafalgar, contrary to popular legend, he did not dress up in his showiest costume and expose himself on the most suicidal part of the deck. He merely wore his usual frock coat and quietly paced the upper deck-until a musketeer, lodged only 50 feet away in the rigging of the Redoubtable, shot him in the spine. Of the mass of tributes to Nelson, two stand out. One is that of a dying Trafalgar enemy, Spanish Admiral Gravina, who said: "I hope and trust that I am going to join the greatest hero the world almost ever produced." The other...
...Dress manufacturers, who had pushed high-priced fancy items in the days of shortage, were producing dresses at an average wholesale price of less than $9. Philco Corp. cut its radio and radio-phonograph prices as much as $60 (sample: a $44.95 table model cut to $14.95). Consolidated Cigar Corp. put a 9? price on its 10? Harvester and La Palina cigars...
...India Adibasi Mahasabha, made up of delegates representing India's 25 million aborigines who are scattered among 176 tribes from Assam in the northeast to Madras in the deep south. One-fifth of India's first settlers live in the hillside jungles, many still dress in leaves, hunt with bow and arrows. The other four-fifths, touched by government, missionaries and modern industrialism, have found that civilization can be as ruthless as the man-eating tigers around their native villages. Cut off from their primitive tribal customs, most adibasis have sunk to the level of coolies...
These last two days before Lent were the crashing, climactic orgy of Munich's Fasching-the first full-dress, no-holds-barred carnival after a decade of war and ruin. In the whole Fasching time (which the bold began the second week in January), Munich has writhed and staggered through some 2,500 public and 25,000 private parties; the city has pocketed some 150,000 marks in entertainment taxes. This year, Munich citizens had decided that nothing mattered more than a successful Fasching: families pawned beds, shoes and watches to buy costumes; impoverished baronesses slashed their last evening...