Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coady and Chauncey did not dress for play, and it seems very likely that Coady will not be in the line-up against Dartmouth. Howe took his place in the backfield; but if Howe starts in Saturday's game Harvard's punting problem will be difficult. Cheek, Miller, and Crosby are not strong kickers, so it seems probable that should Coady be out Maher will play in the backfield...
...something between that of Napoleon's Tomb and Westminster Abbey. Patrons tiptoe incessantly up and down the heavy rugs in the corridors, looking strangely lost. Usually they are. It requires no end of time to find the theatre itself. Easy enough to run into smoking rooms and parlors, dress closets and telephone amphitheatres; there are hundreds of them everywhere. It is the theatre alone that escapes detection...
...Lloyd-George has any thoughts of extending his political career into the future, no one can blame him. The British public might be amused or scandalized, either of which would be undesirable. Moreover, the former premier is faced with a serious problem in practical ethics. Dress, it seems, may be at the same time both moral and immoral, depending on whether the final public judgment agrees with convention or the German enthusiasts. If convention is right, Mr. Lloyd-George should not have been caught by the camera-man in such a Garden-of-Eden setting. But, if the naked culturists...
...fancy Oriental herbs [plus orientalium herbarum decoratarum] and more of coffee, which all too often, perchance to the detriment of study and discipline, our young men and women consume in the morning hours in the city shops. And it must be confessed we older men mourn the becoming dress of our contemporaries when we see our students adorned with clothes of various colors and actually wearing trousers which, by the ambitious latitude in their fullness, are more barbarian than any which the Dacians or Sarmatians wore...
...work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...