Word: skirting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elaine Fraser, the Radcliffe winner, and third in the whole match, dressed in a trim blue woolen skirt and a blouse and low-heeled shoes, made the following statement for publication: "If I told you what I really thought...
...sleeves should at least cover the elbows, and the skirt fall far below the knees...
...indicate that he was a demon of light or fire. Despite the fact that his hands are bound behind him and his assailant is stepping on his toe, the monster nonchalantly faces what in a newspicture would be the camera, the better to show his single eye. The flounced skirt which he wears was obsolete as ordinary apparel in Mesopotamia at the time of the carving (about 2,000 B.C.) and according to Dr. Frankfort the artist bungled its design...
Clad in a skirt of pink ostrich feathers, orchid bodice, and silver shoulder straps, Toe-Dancer Sarah Churchill, daughter of British Tory Winston Churchill, made her debut in Boston in four-a-day vaudeville with Comedian Vic Oliver, to whom she is reported engaged (TIME, Sept. 28). Insisted she: "I'm here for work and not for love." Said he: "I don't dance...
...tell me, in a few words, the object and accomplishments of the recent convivial, skirt-dancing junket of the Governors of the drought-stricken States called by President Roosevelt, and in which he took the leading role...