Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Into the Papal throne room filed 3,000 Frascati pilgrims in unaccustomed dress suits, black vests, white gloves. Each pilgrim grasped firmly by the neck a bottle of amber Frascati wine. One by one the 3,000 pilgrims filed past the Pope to receive a special apostolic blessing and then filed out. Left on long tables, 3,000 bottles stood against the wall...
...Manning and Baptist Harry Emerson Fosdick proceeded that evening to the former's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. There theocrat and minister watched 2,000 trained nurses march up the aisle and take their rustling seats. Many a nurse wore the Red Cross uniform of crisp white dress and redlined blue cape. It indicated both that she had been graduated from a high school and that she had taken special courses in war nursing. Most of those at the Cathedral had served in the World War, a few in the Spanish-American...
Through the Senate last week ill winds whined and whistled for the Hoover administration. Consideration of the farm relief bill drew to a close. The Senate's Republican Leader, Senator Watson of Indiana, appeared on the floor in mourning. "When I go to a funeral, I dress for it," he explained with a liverish smile...
...Freshman Gymnasium will be used as a ladies' and men's coatroom. The conventional dress for the evening will be summer formal while the ushers will wear tuxedo...
...thought it a mistake. The habit of looking to the Club for the few brave glimmers of serious dramatic art still tolerated in this cultural center had so grown upon us that such a drastic change seemed like the breaking of a cherished tradition. So we went to the dress rehearsal last night with a delicately balanced chip on our shoulder. But we came away smiling, eager to record that once when the Dramatic Club chose to be undramatic the result was a gay and tuneful frolic obviously hugely enjoyable to its participants and contagious in its entertainment value...