Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...None could dress with more originality and abandon than she, though clothes gave her comparatively little concern, and she was forever flinging off her hat as soon as she reached a place where she could throw...
...only do the smocks protect the men's clothing," said Mr. Benkard, "but they give an air of neatness to the offices which cannot be obtained, save through uniform dress. It is not an imposition on the clerks, as all of them will tell you. They like...
...difference, sometimes the only one, between a stock company and a company playing but one 'play, is that in the former the spectator unconsciously is apt to hark back to the play of a week ago while witnessing the current spectacle. Unless the repertory actor succeeds in changing his dress, his speech, and his mannerisms most completely with each change of program, the audience is apt to see two plays at once, one with its eyes, the other with its subconscious mind...
...Senate. In double-breasted blue suit, Charles G. Dawes called the Senate to order. Eighty-nine senators, many in political "full dress," the Prince Alberts of yesteryear, were present at the solemn occasion. Of the four new senators, all except Mr. Nye were led to the rostrum by their colleagues, sworn in and allowed to sign the register. Senators rose up to congratulate the newcomers. Senator Butler, chairman of the Republican National Committee, was the first to shake the new Senator La Follette's hand. Mr. Nye's credentials were, referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections...
...Jemmett, a young Englishman known for his foppish habit of dress, his astounding height and his skill in the painting of miniatures, leaped into the seas that pounded over some rocks near Biarritz, and with Raoul Fourquet, lifeguard, lost his life in an attempt to rescue a drowning Englishwoman (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). Inspired by this exploit, one George Conlon, a native of Frostburg, Md., executed a small marble, "To the Heroes of the Sea," which was put on exhibition last month at the Biarritz Golf Club. A committee, organized by the Mayor of Biarritz, has raised funds to copy...