Word: raiment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...even more silly and more senseless than ever. . . . With our Blessed Lady, Mary, the Mother of Christ, ever before their eyes as the model of Christian womanhood, how is it . . . that [Catholic women] venture to enter even the portals of the temple of God clothed in the silliest raiment of those who are dedicated to the temple of shame...
...writer in his spare time (From Nudity to Raiment), Hiler was also a great cafe sitter with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Man Ray. He knew the Left Bank like the bottom of his glass. In 1934, when the dollar fell so low that a whiskey neat cost 72? in Paris, Hiler announced, "The position is untenable," and started home...
...years the indigent aged who live in New York City's municipal poor houses on Staten and Welfare Islands, have been issued standard raiment. In a century it has grown almost as quaint as the outfits of Beefeaters in London's Tower. For men it consists of high shoes with elastic inserts like Congress gaiters and cotton suits whose intrinsic shapelessness is a true reflection of the style of nightshirt in which they have to sleep. For women it consists of coarse cotton mother hubbards, black cotton stockings, shoes like the men's, floppy sunbonnets. To both...
Girl in the Street (Gaumont British). Last cinema appearance in the U. S. of blonde British Cinemactress Anna Neagle was in the regal weeds of the Widow of Windsor. This time she sets out in Romany raiment beside a barrel organ, soon warbles her way up in the world. Far too grim and determined a gamine for this two-dimensional story, vaunted Actress Neagle succeeds largely in proving that even she can make...
Sailing Along (Gaumont British) stars England's top singer and dancer, Jessie Matthews, in a jarring $900,000 blend of inexpensive, landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...