Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spotlessly laundered blouse or neatly groomed hair that she lives and works in a healthy and free country . . . You are 35, married, and have a child . . . Did you ever think what it would mean to your husband* if he could see you at home in a clean hostess gown of multi-flower print, your cheeks and hands smelling fresh? . . . And, I implore you, don't stand at the hot stove in the same dress you come home in. Put an apron around your waist, one of those plastic aprons with ruffles. They don't have to be washed...
...Dwarf got dressed, thrust two Lugers into shoulder holsters under his long blue gown, then stopped in a back-alley opium den to share a pipe with an underworld crony, Nai Sakon. The Dwarf complained: "Pramote has doublecrossed us all. Now he has a racing stable, a new Packard and a beautiful wife. We have nothing but worry...
Pramote, who had heard the shot, ducked out the back door and dived into a canal. The Dwarf tore off his blue gown and rushed into the house, firing wildly. He killed Pramote's eight-year-old niece and the Ceylonese guest. Then The Dwarf dashed out, shouting to his pal to start Pramote's Packard. Pramote's chauffeur protested, trying to protect his boss's car. The Dwarf killed him, too. By the time police arrived, The Dwarf had disappeared...
...Class Day committee warned last night that all men planning to graduate in June must place cap-and-gown orders at the Coop by tomorrow's closing time...
Anna grabbed her Chinese padded gown, a box of vitamin pills, three handkerchiefs, and followed her captors. "My mind raced madly . . . What, what, what had I done? Why, everybody liked me here! At the last diplomatic reception, Mme. Molotov had shown me a special favor . . . We turned . . . into the inner court of Lyubyanka prison . . . 'How,' I gasped, 'shall I ever get out of here...