Word: getup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raymond Duncan, esthetic brother of the late, free-loving danseuse Isadora Duncan, celebrated the occupation of his adopted Paris by donning his famed pre-war getup, Greek toga and sandals, then marching to the U.S. Embassy with the U.S. flag in hand. He gave the banner to the Swiss caretaker, proceeded to sing Yankee Doodle until he was hoarse...
Many thanks for the excellent article about Father Dodd of Hollywood (TIME, Aug. 2), but where, oh where, did you find that atrocious photograph, which makes him look like "an odd fish" indeed? Never have I seen a priest, whether Anglo-Catholic or Roman Catholic, arrayed in such a getup...
...opinion the type of soldier (a very tiny proportion of the Army) who drifted in the Los Angeles terror mobs suffers from an inferiority complex. Regimented, and in his drab same uniform, he resents the attention the zooter is paid when garbed in his nonmilitary, free-choice, albeit outlandish, getup. . . . This type of soldier has a subconscious bitterness towards all civilians, fostered by labor strikes which are played up by the press, and against capital which they imagine is making millions while they, poor souls, are the "goats...
Those who saw Cora Hind on her tours through the wheat never forgot her. A sturdy, schoolmarmish spinster, she wore high leather boots, a cowgirl skirt, flat-crowned sombrero, and a beaded buckskin coat which hung to her knees. This getup was discarded in her later years in favor of ill-fitting riding breeches, shirt and high boots. She carried rubber hip boots in case of rain...
...they talked snatches of German and their Germanic English. In a workmen's pub the proprietor recognized one of them as a former vacuum-cleaner salesman named Harry Pringle who had sometimes called before the war. Said the proprietor to Harry Pringle: "What are you doing in that getup?" Harry Pringle told him. Otherwise there seemed to be very little interest. During the whole two hours only one person was suspicious enough to phone the police station...