Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...working garb may be of chiffon, but her hours will be from 1 P.M. to 5 A.M. the next day.... The debutante must keep going--going--going until she drops.... It is the hardest kind of work, this keeping hold of the dazzling social pin-wheel, with its endless revolutions...
...maize was part of several thousand acres belonging to Baroness Irma Molnar, widowed sister-in-law of Hungary's famed Ferenc Molnar, fat, ironic playwright. Once a noted beauty, the Baroness Molnar grew eccentric after her husband's death in 1900, cut her hair short, adopted peasant garb and, during the War, equipped and mannishly managed a large field hospital. Although often styled "richest woman in Jugoslavia," she recently dispensed with nearly all her servants, then filled the sumptuous salons of her chateau at Starilec with innumerable dogs and birds...
...More to show the honor in which the Crown is held, as well as to conform to usage and tradition, they [those who attend the court] decked themselves in accustomed garb. Shall any call them sycophants or mountebanks? Not at all. . . . We do not confuse dependence with courtesy, or underrate the value of continued custom...
...comparative emptiness of the Yard on May mornings of these last two years has set all the more into relief the garb of contemporary Seniors. The gowns of the past are still, evidently, purchased; some moved, sparse sombre dots, in the early hours of the first week of May; they massed together before Widener in one grand display for the benefit of Notman's and the Album: then--oblivion. The almost-alumnus is no more to be distinguished from the rest of Harvard than is the sweaterless and letterless athlete...
...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...