Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave her a check for $1,200 to buy dresses in Manhattan. She saved $1,000 of it. Dress was not one of her luxuries. She would walk aristocratically into a distinguished hotel wearing a rusty gown, pinned up the back, shabby, "at the elbows." She was an aristocrat, but chiefly in manner. She did not speculate with her wealth, but invested in railroads, in Standard Oil. She was of Quaker stock, which may explain her frugality, but she turned Episcopalian. She married Edward H. Green. She replied to Suffragists who requested her aid: "I do not approve of Suffrage...
...Everett, who has the eye of a connoisseur, was not dismayed. He had seen the statue of which he was sent to get a reproduction. It was wrapped in a cumbrous toga. He could not help comparing it to a modern dressing-gown...
...ring they were all smiles. Carp smiled his customary gracious smile; and Gibbons smiled his good-natured smile. At the end of the bout Gibbons was still smiling his good-natured smile. Carp however, was not smiling. Gibbons wore a dark heavy sweater under a dark brown dressing-gown. Carp was clad in a light gray robe with black fringes. As the two fighters shook hands, Carp was heard to exclaim in English : "Good luck to you !" The Fight. Carpentier, though managing to remain vertical until the end, was converted into a pulp of bruised and bloody flesh...
...second of the White House Garden parties was held on the East and West terraces; because of wet grounds, refreshments were served within on the state dining table. Mrs. Coolidge received alone because of the President's cold. From press descriptions it seemed that she wore the same gown as at the first reception a week earlier. But that was doubtless an error...
Another hostile critic was the Daily Herald, official organ of the Independent Labor Party. The newspaper referred to the "ostentatious" court gown of Mrs. Philip Snowden and "the scarlet coat and blue trousers trimmed with silver braid" of "Jamie" Brown, King George's proxy at Holyrood, spoke of its "impatient contempt for such misuse of life...