Word: pajamas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hair bedraggled, shoes unbuttoned, trousers unbelted, wild-eyed in a mauve pajama jacket, Morris Gest, theatre man (The Miracle), arrived in Denver in an automobile. Near Stratton, Col., a Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific train on which he was riding had plunged through a trestle into a flooded creek. Ten persons had drowned. Showman Gest described the accident repeatedly, volubly to newsgatherers : how the cars had rolled over on their sides in the water; how he, asleep, tad had a "rude" awakening; how he grabbed in-the dark, caught his watch-chain hanging from the upper berth, bashed through the window...
Plugged like a new jazz song was the trouser mode for women at last week's show. Having established the once unpopular ensemble, U. S. couturiers are now busy trying to put over the glorified pajama and its offspring, the feminine overall, at least for luncheon, tea, tennis, beach strolling. The opinion of most buyers last week was that part-time trousers for women are just wandering, have gotten nowhere...
...backward glance at the Winter Season just closed in Buenos Aires reveals that the outstanding event was not the Hoover visit (TIME, Dec. 24), but the sudden and epochal decision of paunchy, prosperous Argentine males to adopt sheer, silk pajamas as their public garb. During previous hot winters-with thermometers more often than not at 98° in the shade - perspiring Argentines merely peeled off their coats, went about in shirtsleeves. This year, however, the policia strictly enforced an ordinance punishing with a fine of one peso (42?) the offense of "appearing in public without a coat." Result: thousands...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney motored up from the Bath and Tennis Club into the heart of Palm Beach last week, and lunched pajama-clad in a public restaurant...
Back Talk. "When I knocked on the [hotel] door, a somewhat impatient voice bade me enter. I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed...