Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Magazine Section-where were set down little-known facts about Harry Houdini: that he was born to the name of Weiss, son of a scholarly rabbi; that he tock his name from a French magician, Robert Houdini; that his "greatest trick" is allowing himself to be garbed in a dress coat, packed in a bag, boxed in a locked and corded trunk, whence he appears in a few seconds and reveals his wife (or other colleague) garbed, packed, boxed, locked, corded in his place...
...place of the gorgeous toilettes and magnificent uniforms worn in the Tsar's time, men and women came in street dress, a few in evening clothes. The fashion among the women was said to be sweater, blouse, skirt...
...differs from earlier Negro models in elaborateness of dress. Money and a mild amount of taste have gone into the manufacture...
...shirt-waists, 5; vests, 3; clothes, 2 suits; bath rugs, 3; sweaters, 6; tuxedo suits, 1; men's hose, 1; American flags, 2; lace curtains, 3 pairs; revolver, 1; Winchester rifles, 2; Ithaca shotgun, 1; L. C. Smith shotgun, 1; towels, 1; rubber sheet, 1; scissors, 7; dress goods, 2 pieces; Artlex collars, 11; fur neck pieces, 2; ear syringe, 1; fur gloves, 10 pairs; muffler, 1; victrola needles, 1 box; portfolio, 1; ladies' shoes, 1 pair; dress suit, 1; tuxedo coat, 1; pajamas, 1; Corona typewriter, 1; electric hair cutter, 1; men's arctics, 1 pair...
...visitors will do well to hold the Blue to three touchdowns. Yale has, to be sure, failed to show much of a scoring offense so far, but the power is there, and the season is reaching the stage where the latent power should begin to show. As a dress-rehearsal for the Princeton game a week hence, today's encounter will hardly be satisfactory unless the Blue eleven rolls up a substantial margin...