Word: dressed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your article you mention that when studio audiences appeared in full dress, their starched shirt bosoms bounce sounds back, being poor absorbers...
...invitations went out in Aunt Eleanor Roosevelt's name only, so that it would not be a "command performance." But the President attended. Niece Eleanor, pretty, lively, 18, was to have worn a dress sent her by King George of Greece whom she met while visiting the Minister Lincoln MacVeaghs in Athens. It didn't arrive so she made out very well in billowing white organdy...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association remarked that Lydia Pinkham had changed her dress again. In keeping with vitamin fads the preparation is now labeled "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound (With Vitamin B 1 )." Said the Journal: "It is indeed surprising that . . . these old-timers . . . did not select vitamin E [fertility vitamin] . . . since [it] . . . has been endowed with certain effects which were claimed for Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It must be granted, however, that there is probably nothing harmful in the addition of vitamin B 1 [anti-beriberi...
Fortnight ago Mme Skobline was brought to trial. Over 60 witnesses trooped to the stand and piled up evidence against her. She said, among other things, that her husband "waited for her" outside a dress shop for an hour and a half the day de Miller disappeared. Last week, although the fate of General de Miller has never been conclusively established, she was convicted of aiding in his kidnapping and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor, ten subsequent years of exile from Paris. Said La Plevitskaia, tears rolling down her cheeks: "I am alone in the world and completely...
Copeland, Kittredge, Lake and now Lowest. They are names that every schoolboy knows, men who were only yesterday seen in the Yard, men with little green bags and little eccentricities of dress and speech, men whom undergraduates knew as men, but to the class that enters in the fall, and for many years to come, they will just be "authorities" with which to pad a bibliography. Their books can be brought in Boston or Bombay; they themselves are no longer the unique offering of Harvard...