Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center was established in 1940 by a group of Harvard Catholics as a somewhat more independent version of the Newman Clubs (for Catholic students) in other universities. But when Father Feeney became the center's spiritual director seven years ago, it soon began to grow into a full-dress academic institution, teaching Greek, church history, philosophy, literature and hagiography. More than 200 students were converted to Catholicism there, and 103 members and guests of the club felt called to become priests or nuns. This year, 50 members, about 20 of them converts, paid $200 a semester. Four nights...
...Eckmann, onetime University of Washington football star ('21), who has become a prosperous Seattle haberdasher, gave some pointers on dress. "Don't apply for a job in a sports jacket, sweater, T-shirt, or without a tie . . . Don't hit your prospective boss in the eye with a loud tie, or you'll distract his attention from what you are saying." The minimum wardrobe for a job holder: three medium-priced suits (never worn twice in succession), two pairs of shoes-and a hat. "College graduates frequently don't realize the importance of wearing hats...
Watching, one observer found it an astonishing spectacle-"a dress parade, not of the few, but of the million ... in which you could not distinguish the rich from the poor." The observer, New York Times Columnist Anne O'Hare McCormick, had spent half a lifetime observing the world's wars and truces, its generals, its despots, and its sad and patient masses. On the steps of St. Patrick's, she thought...
...Fifth Avenue on Easter Sunday would probably irritate Stalin even more than he is already exasperated with the United States ... [He would probably be] more annoyed by [it] than by Wall Street ... It will take a long series of five-year plans before the Soviet woman can buy a dress, a hat or a pair of shoes for anything near the price a New York working girl paid for her Easter outfit...
...coming or with what^ omens. If he carries a water jar, rains will be abundant during the coming year; if he bears a lantern and wears shoes, there will be a hot summer. This year, according to the astrologers, he arrived wearing a green dress, carrying a flower in one hand, a flower pot in the other and riding on a buffalo. That meant, of course, that cattle and crops would be badly damaged...