Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Richard Morris Hunt, was to be provided by the U. S. In the winter of 1884-85 the base was less than half built and funds were completely exhausted. To the rescue came exuberant Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World. With screaming editorials, cartoons, prize contests, fancy dress balls, all the impedimenta of modern publicity, Publisher Pulitzer had the $100,000 necessary to finish Liberty's pedestal oversubscribed in less than six months...
Last week Mary Lewis Hague made another debut-at the Versailles night club in Manhattan, where she wore a slinky, electric-blue sequin dress, sang better than most night-club singers Shootin' High, Did I Remember? and, with snapping fingers and swaying hips, Les Filles de Cadiz...
...platform of Philadelphia's Irvine Auditorium one night last week stood two eminent U. S. surgeons. Dr. Donald Church Balfour of Rochester, Minn., husband of the elder daughter of the elder Mayo Brother, was wearing cap & gown. Dr. Eugene Hillhouse Pool of Manhattan stood in evening dress. Suddenly with a great grin, Dr. Balfour took off his mortarboard, clapped it on the thin grey thatch of Dr. Pool. Thus playfully did Dr. Balfour symbolize the fact that he was passing on to Dr. Pool the presidency of the American College of Surgeons, convened before them for its annual meeting...
Constance Bennett, a woman of experience, works as a model in a dress shop by day, and by night she exercises all the powers she possesses in securing Paul Lucas for a rich husband. Loretta Young, supposedly a simple country girl, has arrived in the great metropolis to become independent of men and to set herself up as the proud possessor of a hat shop. Janet Gaynor wants a man she can take care of plus a home and some children. Irrevocably lost among the three of them with their love affairs of which only one is successful, the audience...
...Meanwhile, her beautifying had not only made a story for the current Mademoiselle, but a trade circular sent out by the magazine to incipient advertisers of cosmetics. It was also announced that copies of Miss Phillips' gown would be merchandised all over the land as "The Cinderella Dress...