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Confusion reigned as the first fulldress rehearsal of "Too Much Johnson" got under way last night in Sanders Theatre. Bustling belles in brocades and peacock feathers scurried around the stage, followed by strange creatures, among which was a redoubtable Frenchman dressed in a double-breasted frock coat and wearing a Napoleon III moustache...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Too Much Johnson" Has Dress Rehearsal | 12/11/1940 | See Source »

...popular ideas of war as they find expression in fulldress uniforms, military display, etc., are no longer in keeping with the realities of war itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 10/21/1935 | See Source »

...London poor & pious National Prime Minister MacDonald deemed it prudent not to put the Mother Country's new schedules into effect until after a fulldress debate in the London House of Commons, sitting this week. If he takes part in this debate (necessarily defending his government and the Ottawa agreements) Scot MacDonald will thus signalize his complete and final break with Socialism to which all tariffs are anathema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMONWEALTH (British Commonwealth of Nations): Pandora Boxing | 10/24/1932 | See Source »

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