Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been remedied; through the kindness of Professor Francke, Professor Emeritus and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum, and the University authorities, the spacious basement of the Germanic Museum have been placed at the disposal of the Club. Here will be prepared the sets for the coming production in modern dress and action of Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew...
...Simon, famed for his great pronouncement on the general strike (TIME, May 17) rejoined: "The trade union law is in a muddled state. It would be well to have it cleared. . . . There are ominous signs that the Labor leaders regard the general strike of last May as only a dress rehearsal. . . . Mr. George Hicks, the new Chairman of the Trades Union Congress,† recently told the American Federation of Labor that more general strikes of a more intense and more formidable character are inevitable...
Suddenly?like the door of a jack-in-the-box?the heavy portal of the Sejm flies open. The Josef-in-the-box stands there, surrounded by his Cabinet. They are in formal dress, ablaze with orders. The Marshal, towering and black-browed, wears only his field uniform, wrinkled, unadorned...
...Archbishop Michael Curley of Baltimore, temperate, blunt. Said the Archbishop: A Catholic survey of 404 motion pictures showed this number of scenes-marital infidelity, 117; struggles of girls to defend honor, 113; divorce as remedy for marital ills, 38; drinking, 140; smoking by girls, 82; indecent dancing, 97; immodest dress, 172; undue sex familiarity, 192. The legislators, he summarized, "should get rid of smut on week days before transferring it to Sunday...
...song of the Bowmen of Shu (China, 1100 B. C.) ; Browningesque (but far airier) narratives of Provence, her knights and troubadours. "Little naked and impudent songs," he has called his work. Perhaps "greatest living jongleur" would define him better, since he relies so upon borrowed accents, fantastic metres, the dress of other days. Once, at least, has this jongleur been more than little or impudent. He wrote "The Ballad of the Goodly Fere," an account of the Crucifixion by Simon Zelotes, hard-bitten mariner. The Goodly Fere bids his captors let his comrades...