Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although Mr. La Follette did not appear in Cleveland himself, his wishes were carried out by Governor Blaine and by his own son, Bob, Jr. The younger La Follette, aggressive, meticulous in dress, much resembles his father. In keenness of intellect, perhaps, the son does not measure up to his father. But he is an effective worker for his father's cause, and under his direction the 28 La Follettemen did their appointed task...
...Moses: "Mr. President, I wish to announce that what the Senate has just heard is a mere dress rehearsal. The real speech by the Senator from Mississippi, amplifying the text which he has used today, will be heard in Madison Square Garden on the 24th of June...
...possibilities which this opens up are enormous. Inequalities of stature, which have hitherto been almost insuperable obstacles in the way of borrowing other people's clothes, will be smoothed out as though with a flatiron. Dress manufacturing will be standardized, and mail order hourses will be concerned only with width, style, and pattern. Even the annual parade of the street-cleaners will be orderly and level-headed...
Coach Stevens' and Shaw's eights took to the water at 11 o'clock in the morning and pulled over a six mile course. Several men had examinations but the daily schedule calls for reveille at 6.30 and between that hour and eight the men dress and breakfast. Examinations begin promptly at 8 o'clock, an hour and 15 minutes before those in Cambridge...
...express request of Benito all the Senators and Deputies, except three or four, appeared in full evening dress. One Deputy provoked convulsions of merriment by appearing in "tails" and yellow boots; one wore a black shirt. The appearance of the King was a signal for roof-lifting applause which was as loud as it was long. Vittorio Emanuele, dressed in the uniform of a general, took his seat upon a throne, erected under a canopy of red velvet, decorated with the Arms of Savoy in gold. Above and behind him were the Queen and the Princesses Mafalda and Giovanna, surrounded...