Word: hoopskirted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gentleman of 83 stepped last week into the White House, which used to be his home as a young man. He came to attend the hanging of a portrait of his mother, the first of her to be hung there?the portrait of a dark lady in a crinoline hoopskirt and drop-shoulder gown with a wreath in her hair. The scene of the hanging was in the oval room on the ground floor, under the famous Blue Room used for formal receptions. The gentleman was Robert Todd Lincoln. At his request the portrait of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln had been...
...similar ceremony honored Dr. Marion Talbot, Dean of Women at the University of Chicago. Dean Talbot spoke: ". . . . As the Little Lord Fauntleroy type of boy has been superseded by the vigorous, athletic boy scout so the girl, freed from corset and hoopskirt and chignon, in blouse and knickers or swimming tights, performs feats of physical agility and endurance which in the days of her great-grandmother would have condemned her to a social limbus, if not to something worse." She recalled the day when a college woman was considered "a freak and an outcast...