Word: nightgowned
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...remodel it into something worse. Her gardens were planted with tin and china flowers. She built a staircase of imitation books with joke titles, was delighted to see visitors try to pocket a half crown painted on her doorstep. For house wear her favorite garb was a cheap flannel nightgown, fastened by an emerald and diamond brooch, from which hung a sixpenny police whistle. She had more lawsuits than she could count and called her house Writs Hotel. Half-blind, bedridden, living in pigsty disorder, she stayed up half the night filling gaily bound notebooks with illegible maxims intended...
...while peering out of a front window from that same house that scrawny little Malvina first felt the surge of excitement at the sight of the nude human figure that is the driving force behind most great sculptures. A suicidal beauty across the street slipped out of her nightgown and dived into a snowbank 30 feet below, narrowly missing a passing postman...
Interviewed in Cleveland's Union Terminal wearing a nightgown under his suit, famed old Lawyer Clarence Darrow hastily explained: "Whenever I leave Chicago for a night trip, I always wear one instead of undies and a shirt. Only way to travel on a sleeper. Can't be bothered doing the contortions in a berth...
...Thomas Cantrell Dugdale's portrait of Actress Vivien Leigh in bed, the Royal Academy's pressagent thought it necessary to explain that the artist, calling to arrange sittings, had found Miss Leigh ill in bed, decided to do her that way, in a sheer blue nightgown. Only ''challenge to orthodoxy'' in the show was a double portrait of another actress lying on a couch in her unmarried personality, leaning over the couch in her married personality...
Then I knew I was indeed without hope. Were I in a strange man's bed, I should at least want to have on a pretty nightgown...