Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second volume of his History of the World. Leaning on the sill of his window he meditated on the duties of the historian to mankind, when suddenly his attention was attracted by a disturbance before his cell. He saw one man strike another, whom he supposed by his dress to be an officer; the latter at once drew his sword and ran the former through the body. The wounded man felled his adversary with a stick, and then sank upon the pavement. At this juncture the guard came up and carried off the officer insensible and then the corpse...
When Clive told her he was marrying an unshackled modern, a newspaper woman, with dark hair brushed straight back like a boy, Monica was shocked, but contrived to ask lightly: 'Is anybody shackled nowadays, my dear?' 'Oh, we all are! . . . People who dress for dinner, I mean, and are presented at Court, and take in the "Quarterly Review...
...silk was the bride's dress, and of silk were the speculations of many a Cheney.* Handsome, solemn, gray-haired Charles Cheney, President of Cheney Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...
...Chicago, a gunman last week held up Stenographer Mary Johnson, took her purse, coat, beads, dress. Up rattled a taxi. Disrobed, dismayed, Mary stepped in. Said the chivalric chauffeur: "I'm a stickup guy myself, dearie. See these two automatics? But you've had enough for one night-I'll take you home...
Joan: Do you think God would have nothing to dress...