Word: gowning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish Guards struck up "God Save the Queen." The folding doors opened, disclosed the broad gold-laced backs of the court chamberlain and court steward, bowing low before Majesty. Chamberlain and steward backed into the room. Entered the Queen of England, ablaze with diamonds, wearing a "white and gold gown with an overdress of changeable pastel shades," as fashion technicians described it. Holding her firmly by the hand was scarlet-coated Edward of Wales, his uniform collar embroidered with the wild onion of the Welsh Guards. Prince Edward led his mother to the single throne on the dais, bowed, took...
Clothes were the keynote, last week, of the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition in London. The pictures were of that conventional, familiar stripe which appeals to all well-bred Englishmen. But when Eagless Margot Asquith, who always enjoys her own idiosyncrasies, appeared in a cubistic gown of black and white chiffon, many a dun-clad dowager began sputtering to her companions. The newspapers talked about...
...bent, he has depicted a dinner table group including John Davison Rockefeller, John Pierpont Morgan and Henry Ford. Ticker tape winds among the wine glasses. There is a radio loud speaker, a steel safe door, a lamp shaped like the Statue of Liberty, an artificial female in a backless gown. But satire is a rarity with Artist Rivera. Most of his work is a sympathetic tale told with figures that have the bare graphic form of Giotto and the incandescent coloring of the South. Now in his 40's, he was born in a mining town of Guanajuato...
...picture of the Senior class will be taken at 2 o'clock today on the steps of Widener Library. If the weather does not permit, the taking of the picture will be postponed, and another date will be announced. Every man must wear his cap and gown...
...picture of the Senior Class will be taken on the steps of Widener Library at 2 o'clock on Friday. The attendance of all Seniors, in caps and gowns, is required. No man will be permitted to sit in the picture without his cap and gown...