Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once known as &qout;The Shrimp Queen," because her father had made a lot of money in shrimp. In Northern villages, alongside pictures of Leopold inscribed "We await our King's return," there were on display posters of bosomy Mary Liliane in a low-cut evening dress, bending over a banquet table strewn with blossoms. The caption said simply: "Fruits and Flowers...
...sister, while eleven-year-old Elizabeth frowned and nudged her in lofty, outraged dignity. The reporters might have been even more fascinated had they been in the palace earlier and seen Princess Margaret kick up one of her first and worst tantrums. When she learned that Elizabeth's dress was to have a train and hers none, she raised such an unholy uproar that the King himself called in the dressmaker and ordered trains for both girls' dresses...
...Divided." One day last week, escorted by 400 Moorish guards mounted on gold-shod Arabian steeds, Franco rode to the Cortes. No less resplendent than his escorts, whose azure, red & orange capes flowed in the wind, the Caudillo wore the yellow, red & gold dress uniform of a Field Marshal of Spain. Briskly he entered the Cortes chamber through a special door which had been ripped open for him the night before, was bricked up again after the ceremony. Bobbing up & down, Franco acknowledged the cheers of the white-jacketed Procuradores (Cortes members) and the blue-uniformed Falangists. On hand...
Satirist Lewis has an artist's eye, has long liked to think of himself as more of an artist than a writer. Last week, to Lewis' unconcealed satisfaction, London's Redfern Gallery was staging a full-dress retrospective show of his paintings...
...Livingstone department, neither of the Adrians had had any experience as explorers. Their plans, not to shoot, but, rather, to admire the animals ('an enormous love of animals is our principal motive') modified the equipment situation somewhat . . . There would be a few days in Nairobi where dinner dress would be needed . . . Rather than take a chance on finding in the African shops an exploring costume in her size (almost no ready-made clothes anticipate her doll-like proportions)," Mrs. Adrian bought them in Manhattan. For the trip up river she wore "an oyster-white silk Shantung suit made...