Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...forever "sold" on TIME and await its arrival as eagerly as my Christmas presents but the article in the March 12 issue with reference to Mrs. Eddy's love of dress and her daily manicure is out of place. I see no earthly reason for her going about in sackcloth and ashes and as for clean nails I was brought up to expect that in any lady. RALPH M. MEARS Charleston...
Some few hours later rich Mr. Eastman arrived at Cairo wearing one slipper, one shoe, a pair of dress trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...
...Dickey's book there are astonishing stories about Mrs. Eddy. He explains how she was "fond of dress," how she manicured her nails every morning, how her house, in the sedate Boston suburb of Chestnut Hill, was fitted with an elaborate system of bells by which her "watchers" could be summoned. Mr. Dickey relates how Mrs. Eddy requested her disciples to care for the weather. "During some severe New England winters our leader would instruct her workers they must put a stop to the snow which she regarded as a manifestation of error...
...greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found to be the case with 'Hamlet'. Ophelia would lose her charm in modern dress. And then, a change of costume is not needed to make Shakespeare modern. His thought and his humility will always be ultra-modern...
...believe that by casting 'The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress, a fresh interest in Shakespeare can be given. This play is now in popular disfavor, although of course in the days of Ellen Terry the people thought it among the best of Shakespearean dramas. By putting an Italian gentleman, Petruccio, in a cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage...