Word: dressed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...town for the evening. They withdrew two miles from Tiajuana to a spot called Agua Caliente. Here they built a beautiful hotel and beside it a large and luxurious gambling casino. While the rabble is fleeing for the border from Tiajuana, the lazy rich man is beginning to dress for dinner at Agua Caliente...
...three years ago, wrote Asa G. Candler, composing his own funeral notice with blank dates that last week were filled in. Precise, meticulous, he also left instructions that he should be buried in full dress. He was 77; he died after two years of illness following the paralytic stroke from which he never recovered...
...many a year now have fashions been cruel to the heavy. With dress designers concentrating on eliminating all the differences between the shadow cast by a woman and the shadow cast by a barber's pole, women of generous poundage have been consistently unfortunate. Present fashion forecasts, it is true, predict that the straight line will this year make some concessions to the curve. But even such contours as may be established will probably be willowy rather than rotund, graceful rather than pronounced...
Virginio DeMartin in his Mono, Lisa in Paradise Dress had stripped Leonardo's inscrutable model down to a garish French postcard, not nude but naked...
...incidental sketches of herself are quite as shrewd and quite as flattering. She says that Carl Van Vechten thought she should dress "very simply, in black, no headdress at all, no earrings, nothing but her own strange face." He raged at Robert Edmond Jones for jeopardizing his dramatic tastes by approving her passion for ''dressing up" in gaudy turbans and flaming ospreys...