Word: dressere
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...such a delightful new experience that now she could not get enough of it. Some had never had a bed to call their own, others had never slept on sheets, and some wept with pleasure on seeing their bedrooms. Each girl has two roommates and a bed, closet and dresser to herself...
...1870s, the destitute Dreiser family was the talk of Terre Haute. Father John Paul was a religious fanatic who rarely worked. Mother Sarah was a warm-blooded mystical pagan who rarely worried. There were ten Dreiser children, most of them on the wild side, one of them, Paul Dresser, destined for fame as a songwriter. Lonely, nervous Theodore clung to his mother's skirts and suckled himself on fantasies of success. Restless to realize them, he dropped out of high school after one year, worked sporadically, somehow got into Indiana State University-again dropped out after one year...
...killing of a Brooklyn charwoman, and the Wylie-Hoffert murders. The nurse, police said, had identified Whitmore. As to the double murder, police said that Whitmore diagramed the career girls' apartment for them and was even carrying a snapshot of Janice Wylie that he had snatched from her dresser. To be sure, Whitmore recanted his detailed, 60-page confession when he was arraigned. But Chief of Detectives Lawrence McKearney was unworried...
Inevitably, he meets a kind-hearted doxy-a bit actress named Barbara Darling, who invites him into her bed and tries, unsuccessfully, to teach him a few rudimentary sexual tricks. Nevertheless, he spends a long, happy weekend with Barbara before losing her to a "doggish window dresser with a great hanging face, pouches, pendulous lip, bum, turn, dewlap...
...Washington, Connally quickly proved himself an able administrator, came to be remarked upon as a tasteful dresser, preferring silky mohair suits, white-on-white shirts-and almost never a ten-gallon hat. His wide travels as Secretary gave him a new view of Texas. "I saw Adenauer in Germany," he recalls. "I saw the emergence of the Common Market. I saw the vitality in Italy. At the Pentagon I saw what education meant, how basic it was, and how lacking Texas was. I looked at Texas, and I saw we were going to miss the boat completely...