Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tried all the other forms of the drama even low comedy, the counterpart of modern musical comedy." Nor is Shakespeare in modern dress anything novel, for the playwrights of today in many cases merely change the lines of his works, and label them as new productions...
...Fine Arts in the University, spoke on the history of the Dramatic Club. He pointed out that every production it has gives in recent years has been either its first performance in America or has exploited a new theatrical field. "The Taming of the Shrew," presented with modernized dress and action, is the latest and most novel thing it has done. Without doubt, he said the experiment will be carefully watched by producers, seeking a new from of theatrical entertainment...
...have a button to wear in the lapel or on the dress bearing a proper symbol, and representing TIME-readers. I'm sure most of us subscribers would like to know that the man we meet is an up-to-the-moment "peppist," and we would be glad to pay a nominal price for such buttons or insignias...
...humorless, antagonizing more than he converted, Charles Ruthenberg split the Socialist party in 1919, became leader of the small Communist wing, while the late Eugene Victor Debs remained leader of the Socialists. Comrade Ruthenberg's ultimate purpose was "revolution without violence"; he advocated strikes "because they are a dress rehearsal for the revolution" which he hoped would free the workers from capitalism...
Bishop of Derry, Ireland: "Dress [of young girls], which even outdoors is far from modest, in society and at balls and dances is positively immodest, suggestive and an open incentive to passion...