Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three years of systematic drill and discipline by relief workers, who envisaged just such a calamity,. the children had already begun to dress and to form lines. Within a few minutes we marched them all out in orderly formation to the adjacent fields...
Captain Alfred Lowenstein, Belgian billionaire: "I, who am sometimes reputed the richest man in Europe, was barred last week from entering the Bellevue Casino at Biarritz, France, because, though in evening dress myself, I was accompanied by a secretary not formally garbed. Doubling my fist I made contact with the loutish doorman's jaw, passed within. When he instituted suit against me for assault next day, I retained to defend me the celebrated barrister, onetime Finance Minister de Monzie of France. My extravagances include the ownership of a fleet of airplanes which bring to me, wherever...
...Philadelphia the dress trousers of Prince Nicholas were delayed in reaching the Hotel Bellevue-Stratford. The Prince was accordingly delayed in attending a banquet in his mother's honor. When he reached the banquet door it had been locked to keep out the curious and the guard professed to have no key. Prince Nicholas sought the main dining room, passed through the kitchen, emerged into the banquet hall...
Criss Cross. Charles B. Dillingham's big dress-parade is possessed of every grace except humor. Lively dancers, good tunes, gorgeous costumes are presented in abundance. Criss Cross could find no ready market for its splendors, however, were it not for that priceless pair, Stone pere and Stone fille. Dad's acrobatic clowning discovers laughs that the lines themselves never even hinted at, while Daughter's unspoiled charm is one of Broadway's fresh delights. The dull book goes on at length concerning a simple maid who is about to be begged, borrowed, or stolen from...
...Harvard Union were resplendent in "immaculate white waistcoats and dinner jackets of the very latest cut." Is it not a sartorial sin at Harvard to combine a white waistcoat with a dinner jacket? To old-fashioned chaps this is as irregular as russet colored shoes worn with evening dress. How about it? AN OLD GRAD...