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Word: dressing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cercle Francais has decided to attempt a unique experiment in the presentation of "Les Precieuses Ridicules" by Moliere in modern dress and with a modernistic setting, it was announced yesterday. This is the first time that the French comedy has been so produced, and an effort has been made to change the lines of the play as little as possible to make them fit in with the new setting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CERCLE DECIDES ON MODERN DRESS PLAY | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

Files of the Crimson of 53-years ago show that at that time the College daily took an active interest in the affairs of the Freshman classes. Among the editorials administering advice to the first year men is one "On Dress," which is herewith reprinted from the issue of the Crimson of September...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...should be laid aside. The suspicious diamonds displayed by the itinerant tradesmen who replenish their wardrobes from the refuse of our own would in themselves be a sufficient caution against an extravagant display of gold and precious stones in the way of rings, studs, and scarf-pins; and that dress waistcoats are inappropriate companions to sack coats of a morning is a universally acknowledge fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

...evening, the student loses his scholastic character in that of a man of the world. All he need do is to dress like everybody else; but it may perhaps be worth while to remark that a man who carries an opera hat lined with anything but black might properly be termed a howling cad or a graduate of the sister University mentioned before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men of 53 Years Ago Reckoned by Contemporary as Too Well Dressed--Crimson Sets Styles for Freshmen | 11/28/1928 | See Source »

Young Love. She was the little girl who got wet in Orphans of the Storm and wore an arresting white dress in Nell Gwynne. That has nothing to do with a play called Young Love which opened in Manhattan last week, except that Dorothy Gish, 30, is back on the stage playing opposite her husband, James Rennie, and Lillian Gish is still in the movies and still unmarried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 12, 1928 | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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