Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jauntily, impishly, Edward of Wales appeared in evening dress with a red carnation, one night last week, thus setting London's impeccable chappies terribly agog. On the very next evening dozens of red carnations appeared in Mayfair, and smart women flattered their escorts by thrilling, "How adorably ghastly!" Meanwhile, however, Jester Wales, having had his floral joke,* was speeding nocturnally toward the north of England, to visit in grim earnest the stricken coal fields where a half-million miners are workless and nigh to starving (TIME...
Possibly the dress and the behavior of professors and instructors should have been examined also. There used to be professors who went about crumpled and ungartered. There were even professors known to drink whiskey at $2 a gallon. Will it be believed that the Dean of Harvard College dissociates it and himself from this great survey? He says it has no meaning and that he won't have anything to do with it. The Dean of George Washington is a graduate of Harvard. The ungenial mother snubs her own son. What is infinitely worse, she kicks against an irresistible...
...tall, brown-haired, pearl-necklaced and, according to Sunday magazine articles, "superbly formed." In office hours, in sombre office attire, she looks perhaps more resolute than charming, and most of the pearls are hidden beneath her dress. But at social functions in Louisville, in Washington, grimness mellows into dignity, and the pearls, uncovered, hang in a double strand of gleaming white. A friend of hers is Dr. Hubert Work, Republican National Committee chairman. Not a friend of hers is Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Representative-at-Large-Elect of Illinois. She is Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, and she received last week...
...seventh day. On the seventh day it rested. The Question Mark ended its airy sentence. After 150 hours. 40 minutes, 16 seconds aloft, the plane came to earth. Out of the fuselage stumbled the crew, shouting greetings. For Lieutenant Quesada, a dish of ice cream; for Sergeant Hooe, a dress suit; for Major Spatz, a shave ; for them all and for the Question Mark there was the acclaim which they had won by keeping a seven days' vigil, so they might snatch from the clouds all existing records...
...Beach. In 1906, gambler of Goldfield, Nev., he ballyhooed the town by promoting his first prizefight (Joe Gans v. Battling Nelson). In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden he sat at a 2-ton bronze desk, dispersed bills to knowing panhandlers as he passed out of the building. He brought dress suits, decollete gowns to the ringside, was dined by 500 tycoons (Schwab, Baruch, Ringling, Chrysler, Mackay, Gimbel). Always he cringed from surgery. He died of infection following an operation for gangrenous appendicitis...