Word: frocks
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...Writer: Eve Garrette Grady who pictured herself as "a young lady in a white-linen frock and a panama hat," escorted about Moscow by "a tall, dignified American gentleman, impeccably dressed by Bond Street"?apparently her husband...
...civilian delegates of British India. Scorned by these in turn, two miser able delegates of India's untouchables [lowest class] scuttled to their places. All the Princes and Maharajas were gorgeously pugreed [turbaned], but all except a few were somberly, impressively clad in long ajkans [tightly-buttoned, turtlenecked black frock coats]. Overawed, Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing of the New York Evening Post cabled of the princes...
...Mayflower Hotel in Washington announced that William Jeffries Chewning Jr., young bank clerk who eloped with Margo, daughter of millionaire Senator James Couzens of Michigan would become one of its assistant managers, would report for work daily at 8 a. m. in frock coat and grey trousers, would take up "a receptive post in the main lobby...
...France (TIME, Sept. 15), delivered herself thus when she reached Manhattan (on the British ship Majestic) last week: "England is much more charming than France. I don't think I'll ever buy any Paris gowns again. In Paris it is difficult to get a dress or an evening frock for less than $300, and an average price is $700 to $800, which is ridiculously high...
...Yonkers. Rosie was old, fat, bobbed-haired, but just the same under- neath. On the living room wall was a large photograph of the man with whom Rosie had run away. Said Ashenden, "I wonder what it was you saw in him." The picture "showed him in a long frock coat, tightly buttoned, and a tall silk hat cocked rakishly on one side of his head; there was a large rose in his buttonhole; under one arm he carried a silver-headed cane and smoke curled from a big cigar that he held in his right hand...