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Word: garbs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland House's "The Provoked Wife" featured mellow and impromptu acting, voluptuous females in Sam Mantel and Dick Mannick in revealing Restoration garb, and "master of the company" Hammond portraying an especially suited Justice of the Peace role, in the hilarity directed by Al Olsen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finley, Hammond Hit Boards In House Theatrical Orgies | 12/19/1946 | See Source »

...prevalence of GI clothing, the comparative scarcity of civilian garb, and the popularity of parka jackets made the move advisable, according to William C. Bradford, secretary of the Union...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee Moderates Union Clothing Rules | 12/7/1946 | See Source »

...solidity of Mexican Catholicism is debatable. Under the constitution of 1917 the church was disestablished, and in the years following the measures subjecting the church to strict Government control were enforced to the point of persecution. The wearing of clerical garb in public was banned, is still forbidden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholics v. Evang | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Claudius, more formal than the protagonist, will be attired in tails, Polonius will appear in a casual hunting garb, and Osric in a dashing sartorial display fitting his nature. The actresses will wear evening gowns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtain Rises Today On Reading of Hamlet | 8/23/1946 | See Source »

...George and Lady Ida had three children. Edith, the eldest, is the sad-looking, six-foot, sixtyish spinster now renowned for her exotic garb, her exotic prose, her "glittering plinths of jacynth" poetry. The elder son and successor to the title is Osbert: traveler, memoirist, novelist, literary crony of the King & Queen. The younger son is Sacheverell, amateur of baroque art, and biographer of Franz Liszt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sitwelliana, II | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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