Word: trouserings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...niece's mother (Beatrice Terry, niece of the late great Dame Ellen Terry) as well as homely humors by her grandmother (Mrs. Jacques Martin). Mr. Connolly is frequently ludicrous as the thwarted swell who buys a malacca stick but is forced to hide it in his trouser leg until he gets out of sight of his less extravagant relatives...
Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid...
...down the line proffering a roll of cotton batting. The people were advised to stuff bits of the cotton into their ears, stand on their toes, gape their mouths. A moment later there broke forth from eight sinister-nosed 75mm. anti-aircraft guns a maddening, vicious cacaphony that made trouser-legs tremble and skirts sway in waves of force. High in the bright ceiling, some 2,000 ft. above, innocent bits of cotton appeared, no bigger than those in the ears of the crowd, trailing a red finger towed by a tiny airplane...
...some 60 newsmen were ushered into his hotel room. He had sent for them. In a well-fitting cutaway, Citizen Coolidge rose from an armchair placed behind a table, shook out his trouser legs, laid down his cigar holder, smiled. Then, without promptings or interruptions, he proceeded to interview himself for minutes while newsmen blinked their astonishment at his garrulity. Regardless of its other merits, what he said was worth $2,000 at the prices for which he now writes about himself. He began...
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...