Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edward Ballard had a gambler's impulsive temperament, but in running his casino he was shrewd and businesslike. No local resident was ever permitted in his gambling rooms, no liquor was ever allowed, all patrons had to wear evening dress, no employe was permitted to wager a nickel. One year Gamester Ballard made $1,000,000. He bought the West Baden Springs Hotel, and later, with a Detroit gambler, Robert ("Silver Bob") Alexander, also opened a gambling place at Miami. After a time Ballard withdrew from the Association. In the same era he plunged into the circus business...
...that church, some 75 mi. north of the U. S. border, one day last week 1,000 friendly, happy people crowded to see Lydia Gruchy in a white dress and academic gown standing alone opposite seven male United Churchmen. She advanced to the altar, knelt while President John L. Nichol of the Saskatchewan Conference laid his hands upon her head and said: "Take thou authority to preach the Word of God and to minister the sacraments." The other churchmen laid on their hands, questioned Miss Gruchy, handed her a parchment signifying that she was now a minister...
Tomorrow to the Navy game and to the Kirkland House party afterwards. Puzzled all week over whether to wear soft or dress shirt and now the dilemma is settled because he hasn't enough money to pay for laundering any of his three dirty shirts. Two bits will go a long ways to buy one cocktail before dinner. And a cocktail inside a soft shirt is better than a dress shirt outside of nothing...
...biggest, swankest smart-shops in Manhattan is Saks Fifth Avenue. Its idea of an advertising superlative is to describe a dress, corset, necktie or suitcase as "very Saks Fifth Avenue." Astonished, therefore, were New Yorkers to read last week that Saks Fifth Avenue was about to branch to William Edgar Borah's potato paradise of Idaho. Name of the town: Ketchum...
...served, with too-candid remarks on persons then alive. One strange excision describes a peculiar mood Johnson fell into while discussing linen with Boswell and other admirers. He said that linen showed dirt better than silk and "he had often thought" that if he had a harem he would dress his women in linen. The first published version of the Journal lets it go at that, with Boswell's comment that it was odd to hear Dr. Johnson discoursing in this fashion. But the manuscript shows that the situation was more painful. In the course of the talk about...