Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently Army officers were sent questionnaires by the War Department to determine their preference in uniforms. Would they like roll collars instead of the present standing collars? Would they like the reestablishment of dress uniforms in addition to the khaki and olive drab field uniforms which alone are authorized...
...economical pangs at seeing so much copy go into the maw of the presses every day with so little return; so many quickly-jotted ideas that might really be turned into something lasting; so many little quips and literary furbelows that would be worthy to set off a finer dress. It is small wonder that sometimes these pieces are gathered together and swept into a volume, where they may play a sort of public journal to the authors, and buoy up the notorious "sense of accomplishment". Humanly Mr. Morley has every excuse in the world...
...order of Grub Street, Thalia meets her dressmaker every morning, Melpomene goes nowhere without her modiste, and Terpsichore: picks a wardrobe that, if brief, is always brilliant; for Grub Street has: found that pot boiling has a better : savor to the public if it is done in fancy dress...
...winning tragedies are almost all of high dress vintage, and not ; the least are handsome Romeo and Juliet...
...from other colleges and members of the faculty were forming. On the stroke of 11 the procession started across Massachusetts Avenue to the front entrance of Symphony Hall. The guests, who numbered more than 200, then marched up the aisles to the stage. Since all were attired in academic dress, the procession made a striking spectacle, with the red, yellow, blue, and green hoods-contrasting brilliantly with the black caps and gowns. Against such a background there stood out in an even more startling manner the delegates from numerous foreign learned societies, whose gowns were bright red from head...