Word: nightgown
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...Lady of the Orchids. Item: a bedroom at 3:30 a. m. Item: a bed with ermine covers and a plethora of pillows. Item: Peggy Hopkins Joyce in a "creation" better known as a nightgown. Total: a bad French bad bedroom farce...
...called Hogan's Alley, of which the hero was a one-toothed, big-eared urchin. He thought it would be a good idea for the World to run his cartoons in color. The World thought so too. The urchin of Hogan's Alley appeared in a yellow nightgown. Thus was born the first colored comic strip...
...ground floor, the schoolgirls shivered in their beds. When it continued, like the uproar that might herald the approach of some terrible invasion, they left their beds and crept to the head of the stairs. Below them, they saw a Roman scene. A lady somewhat their senior, in a nightgown, indiscreet and hilarious, bade them come down to a feast which she had made ready...
...lady in the nightgown was Miss Clara B. Spence, the principal of the Spence School, where the frightened girls were boarders. There was a reason for her mad, midnight revelling. She had caught her pupils having surreptitious feasts in their cubicles. She wished to show them that she, their principal, could give much better feasts than they could. Then, Miss Spence was certain, they would break her rules no more. That wise, surprising and effective banquet occurred many years ago, in the winter...
Dorothy is snaked out of her carnival by a Deputy Sheriff, who takes her to his home (where his mother is, so it's all right) to bring her up. They fall out after the D. S. hears her say her prayers in her nightgown one evening, and Dorothy goes off and learns about Life from a California trouper. Next she encounters a polo team and Charley Breene in particular. Charley hangs himself around her neck like the albatross, and she never does...