Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Sims' painting of King 'George in full court dress has excited a great deal of comment due to the beautiful legs and rather characterless face given England's ruler. Sir John Lavery shows a large painting Premier Mac-Donald addressing the House of Commons in which the effect of political success on the Labor leader seems to have stamped him with an aristocratic Tory look. The atmosphere of the house is well reproduced, with a clever portrait of Lady Astor leaning far forward in her seat...
...produce for the first time in America this hitherto untranslated work of Capek's, I turned my back upon the glittering array of Broadway productions and took the next train for Cambridge, where I arrived just in time to see the curtains part on the first act of the dress rehearsal...
Bluff is a generally interesting picture, though contradictory. At one moment it derides its subject; the next it rescues the heroine from a mess by bluff. A young dress designer, unable to get ahead in any other way, pretends to be a well- known modiste, and while success rolls in on one side, the police roll in on the other-for her assumed namesake has been involved in Red Cross frauds. The girl's prosecution is pushed by a political boss anxious to hush her up in her fight to make him pay for crippling her brother...
...Chemistry enters with every article of furniture in the drawing room" said Bishop Lawrence. "The varied shades of color in your dress, the window hangings and the wall paper have been created by chemical dyes Of greater importance is the product of chemistry in your cooking and in medicine. Every physician is a chemist, and behind his diagnosis and treatment is the chemical laboratory. And if we ever have another war, which God forbid, chemistry may be the deciding factor in the safety of the nation...
...Poets' "Soviet," one Axionov, "the most sophisticated Russian litterateur," said that the Tarzan vogue was due to "the love of fairy tales instinctive in primitive peoples in general and Russians in particular. "Our revolution killed the fairies, just as education killed them in Western countries. But if you dress up Jack the Giant Killer in a sufficiently modern guise to give him at least a semblance of probability, the masses will love him as did their fathers and grandfathers. And to the fact that Tarzan takes his readers away from strenuous complicated modern life can be attributed the secret...