Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...darkening air fall their farewells-from the Cathedral, from the tower of the monastery, mocking and sad and sonorous. The Cardinal Archbishop and the rest of the notable company listened to an Epilogue ,that made clear the already too obvious moral of the piece and then hurried off to dress for a performance of Don Juan in the Salzburg theatre that evening. Messrs. Reinhardt and Gest returned to a rehearsal of Turandot. Critics next day were loud in praise of the "medieval color" of Herr Reinhardt's arrangement, of the quality of the musical accompaniment (by Einar Nilson, musical...
...clean clothes down on a chair. What she saw on the floor gave her a slight start, but her nerves were good; she chuckled and moved nearer. As she bent over the "corpse" uncertainty replaced the laughter in her generous face; her hand, moving very slowly, pushed back the dress that covered the breast of her youngest. The gash left by the woodpile ax was deep and scarlet. It had long since ceased to bleed. "Whee. . . ." A delighted shriek drifted in from the yard. The Ellison children and the big girls- from next door were now playing "frazzle-belly...
...Governor inclosed a New York fishing license. ¶ After approving a batch of 63 bills in the seclusion of his White House office, the President donned formal dress, climbed into his car, rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue, and entered the historic room at the Senate end of the Capitol. There lay another neat stack of 90 bills which were to be considered in the next hour before Congress adjourned. He showed visible displeasure at the practice which has grown up of having the Chief Executive at the Capitol to approve bills without pondering their wisdom. Nevertheless, he set to work with...
...TIME May 31 [The White House Week], it was with interest that I noted that Mrs. Coolidge was the recipient of a woolen dress from a delegation of "14 Italian women," while "twelve Hungarian ladies" represented another presentation party...
Georges Leygues, Minister of the Navy, accepted the gift for France. He emotionally described St. Nazaire as the place where France "first felt the heart beats of the American people." At the close of his speech, he approached Mrs. Whitney and pinned the Legion of Honor on the dress of the sculptress...