Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, slim, blond, virile, wise. He was Gustav V, King of Sweden. When he called incognito, silk-hatted, frock-coated, at the Wilhelmstrasse Palace, Berlin, an entire company of the Reichswehr goosestepped to welcome the first monarch ever to visit a President of the Reich. Pleased, Paul von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg graciously entertained King Gustav...
...present Prince of Wales lay flat upon his back, kicked, squalled. "Lala" disciplined him, and later dried his tears. As a child, even the serene Princess Mary had her tantrums. "Lala" soothed her temper, tidied her frock. Later she assisted the youthful Prince Henry and the still younger Prince George to blow their noses, etc. For years, in fact, "Lala" was indispensable as the nursery maid of the Windsors...
...Probably the finest chairs of the period in existence. [For once the man in the frock coat, F. A. Chapman, auctioneer, was speaking with the strictest accuracy.] I think I cannot do less than start them at $10,000.... Five?... All right, we all of us have to get warmed up... Six?... You are too generous, Sir.... Who'll give me seven?... I have seven. Eight?. . . Will nobody... Oh, many thanks. I am your debtor, madame; you owe me nothing.... And now nine?... I have nine; I have ten... ten thousand dollars. That was, I think, my first suggestion.... Eleven...
Wednesday. Marvelous morning. Patou called me up and asked if I should like to try on my dresses. Would I like to try them on! An old-rose coat trimmed with fur, a satin cyclamen evening frock, a white silk tennis dress wonderfully cut, one walking dress of rose, another in pale grey. This is simply too divine, I thought; it just isn't true. But when I jumped out of the car at Patou's, there were all the reporters sitting around, staring at the manikins, the frocks and me, like morticians at a flower-show. Dieu...
...Gramercy Park, Manhattan, an old house was torn down a few months ago and builders began to put up an apartment. Last week a company of notable people in high hats and frock coats gathered to unveil a tablet in memory of the man who used to live in the vanished brownstone edifice - Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll, "the famous infidel." Onetime Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, Actress Julia Marlowe, Poet Edgar Lee Masters, made speeches, and those who read the proud colophon upon the tablet and listened to the eloquence of Col. Ingersoll's admirers, reflected how, 40 years...