Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Earl Carroll had crowded a chaotic beauty into his production that would be hard to match but that his search for mirth and music had been less successful. Joe Cook is again the headlined humorist, but somehow his new material does not make up into so effective a garment of gaiety as did his veteran vaudeville sketches. Sophie Tucker heads the parade of pretties. Miss Tucker is not pretty. She is large, loud, good-natured. Saving the costumes, sets and girls, that is about all that can be said for the entire entertainment...
...Manhattan a female McAdoo supporter sat up all one night constructing herself a "McAdoo dress" out of McAdoo flags, ribbons, posters. Appareled in the garment, she next day led McAdoo enthusiasts in a sidewalk parade. Newsboys followed, jeered, shouted: "Where you from-the circus?" Others shouted: "McAdoo Oil! McAdoo Oil!" Turning on her assailants, the woman cried: "Oil never will hurt you but liquor will...
...This garment, in fashion during the Civil War, was worn both day and evening, and is not to be mistaken for the Prince Albert which in turn is becoming extinct in favor of the business suit...
...usser is a wandering fanatic who arrived in Berlin soon after the War and announced himself as "the prophet of the millennium," "President of the United States of Europe" and "healer by the grace of God." He wanders all over Deutschland dressed in a scanty brown garment that leaves his legs bare...
Some five years ago when he was planning to make a gift of money for musical instruments for the use of the public schools in Rochester, Mr. Eastman said: "I used to think that music was like lace upon a garment, nice to have but not necessary. I have come to believe that music is absolutely esisential to our community life...