Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cattle herd and quipped: "This is the first time I have been face-to-face with a bull." Whispered the Governor: "That's not a bull, that's a cow." The newly weds changed (he to a light tweed jacket, tie, rust slacks; she to an orange frock) for a lunch with some 30 reporters and photographers. Rockefeller declined to talk politics. Mrs. Rockefeller said that she had been "called Happy since I was a baby-I would not answer right away if somebody called me Margaretta." She spends much of her time, she said, with her children...
...Crystal Ball, where she greeted 600 elite guests, among them Contralto Marian Anderson. Though honored by the sponsoring Fashion Group of Philadelphia, the Princess bypassed local couturiers for a deep blue organza gown by Balenciaga. Grace's mother, Mrs. John B. Kelly Sr., wore a blush pink satin frock purchased in Atlantic City. Said she unblushingly, "I don't pay any attention to designers...
...became a martyr to the cause of agricultural progress. One summer afternoon in 1866, he noticed that a storm was gathering, hurried to the department's horticultural garden to rescue some experimental wheat specimens that had been cut but left outdoors. Bustling about in his top hat and frock coat, he suffered a heat stroke from which he never fully recovered...
...Mother Kelly's doorstep, down paradise row I sit along of Nelly, she sits along of Joe. She's got a little hole in her frock, A hole in her shoe, a hole in her sock, Where her toe peeps through...
...charge. One minute he cheerily pours whisky on his Wheaties. The next, when the mink he gives the broad turns out to be hoked-up hamster, he screeches in outrage: "I'll sue the guy I stole it from!" And again, eying with some concern a low-back frock his honey has ladled herself into, he inquires thoughtfully: "Say, Virgie. Ain't you got that dress on backwards...