Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this partnership is not important as an instance of town and gown alliance but as an indication of its rapidly increasing interest in economics and as a public recognition of the importance of theory in the practical business world today. This new library rising with the others of the $5,000,000 buildings to teach economics as a business science using the same case system that first made Harvard's law school famous will at once house 150,000 volumes and within five years probably half a million accessible to Harvard students and citizens of Boston alike...
...years ago she had on a black satin gown with grey fur trimming, imported from Manhattan...
Lady Maud Hoare, wife of Air Minister Sir Samuel Hoare, superintended last week the packing of a small week-end bag. Into it went two nightgowns and three sets of undergarments, all of sheerest silk. Then a sheer afternoon gown. Finally a set of especially made featherweight aluminum toilet articles...
...summer of 1896 ... he was then seriously ill, indeed not expected to live, but he was in high spirits. . . . Although it was a day of brilliant sunshine, the curtains were drawn, and the room lighted by many tall candles. Aubrey Beardsley, clad in a yellow dressing gown, and wearing red slippers turned up at the toes, was working. As I entered he waved, laughed his gay laugh, then coughed horribly...
Illustrations for Poe, illustrations for Oscar Wilde, illustrations for the Yellow Book-marvelously adroit and facile pen and inks. "Salome," epicene and sleepy, the "Woman In the Moon," "Venus" in a modern gown, Pierrots, Sapphos, gigolos, whatnots. None of Beardsley's more obscene drawings are part of the sale...