Word: skirtings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Russian fad, a trifle overdone, is fading. Where then can the producer turn? Possibly to Argentina, which is receiving inordinate publicity of late owing to the successful business visit of Senor Luis Angel Firpo. Japan and China have been veterans since The Mikado. The Negro rage and the grass-skirt scare are already moribund. Spain and the clatter of castanets is gone. Covered with dust are the crinoline, the harem skirt, Scotch kilts. The stage of the American revue is rapidly approaching the end of the world. Without other worlds to conquer, Russia, Egypt and the influence of dusky Florence...
...well known yacht builder and partner in the Greenwich (Conn.) Yacht Yards. Wincapaw was piloting his flying boat in a pleasure trip over Lake George, with two passengers, a Miss Wilson of New York and a Mr. Thomas Light, when a gust of wind wrapped the lady's skirt round the " joy stick " or control column. Frantic efforts to disentangle it failed, and in a wild swoop the seaplane struck the water of the lake with terrific impulse. A sliver from a wing strut pierced the pilot's skull, but the unconscious woman and the other passenger, suffering...
Anna Gluzman, 25, Russian " shooting judge ": "I am thus described by American newspapers: 'A cigarette held firmly between tight lips, fire of enthusiasm in brown eyes, slim, short, brown wavy bobbed hair parted on the side like a man's, jaw stern. Rough high boots, black skirt, workman's blouse, old brown sweater, only ornament a Communist badge...
...carried that office, 871-746, although she was not able to be present at the congress. Following the announcement of her election, Mrs. Cook made her first speech as President General. She came forward " in a becoming costume of blue moire silk and georgette crepe with an ankle length skirt. Her hat was of blue satin with a bandeau of white roses." Said...
KIKI?Lenore Ulric entering the last lap of her inordinately long career as the Parisienne who wasn't a bad girl after all. She wears an attractive checked skirt in the first...