Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the intelligentsia of this country, and indeed of the world, President Eliot was most fortunate in receiving untold praise a few years before on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. And since his death the same intellectual class have again pronounced encomiums clothed in the finest literary dress and made by the most profound thinkers and skillful writers...
...assistant lecturers, making it clearer than ever that of all fashion publications, the Nastian was held pre-eminent by New York University authorities. Problems and topics to be treated by Publisher Nast and his assistants, with demonstrations by suitable models: the heavy woman, the elderly woman, good taste in dress, buying and selling fashions, the sartorial education of the young, origins of men's fashions...
...chief point, if any, of "The Orange Comedy," is that it has no serious intention and, at least intentionally, no serious moments. If any seriousness is discovered in the play, it will be eliminated at the dress rehearsal, and a song-and-dance team from Keith's will be substituted...
...next winter, Captain Donald McMillan visits the frigid shores of Labrador he will conceivably see a few native malamutes mushing in tweed knickers, full dress vests and starched Arrow collars, and touching up their huskies with squash racquets...
...Phillips Brooks House clothing canvass which closed last Saturday netted an odd assortment of Harvard haberdashery. Nineteen pairs by knickers, 20 soft felt hats, 15 stiff collars, four white full dress vests and one pair of cerise flannel underwear were among the sartorial prizes contributed for the needy Northmen...