Word: trousseau
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senatorial elections last year. Then in July, 1926, he fought a menacing undertow for 15 minutes at Ocean City, Md., rescued a drowning woman. Last week he was greeted with a law suit; two Manhattan modistes demanded that he pay them $1,121 for his daughter's trousseau†-a bill which has been due for more than a year. Mrs. Stanfield announced that the account would soon be paid...
...married in June. Most of her trousseau was ready. Her fiancé, Edward Sullivan, sports editor of the Macfadden New York Evening Graphic, was sitting at her bedside in a Chicago hospital. Flowers from Gertrude Ederle, Jack Dempsey, Tex Rickard and many another were brought in by her parents. She had been sick for 92 days. She, who had many times looked up from thrashing waters and laughed at the sun, grew pale, saw no sun. Sybil Bauer had ceased to live; her family, her fiance, sports lovers, bowed their heads...
...practice brings back many strange tidings. He reports that no Dartmouth man is considered to have written a "real" poem unless he has taken a sixty mile snow-shoe ramble up and down the mountains, and that nobody is worshipped as a football hero who cannot prove by his trousseau his impeccable taste in knickers, sweaters, and socks...
...both acts is in a convent.--In the first of the holy sisters are presented with a foundling, which their doctor adopts, and they agree to take care of. The second act occurs twenty years later. The foundling has grown to womanhood, and the sisters are preparing her trousseau, for she has fallen in love with Antonio, an architect, and the wedding is imminent. Antonio and his bride go away leaving the nuns, especially Sister Joanna of the Cross--who has acted as a mother to the girl--plunged in deepest gloom...
...Kioto: a kimono of scarlet and purple silk carrying the embroidered chrysanthemum crest; a skirt of intricate design; an outer dress of purple silk with designs of pine trees and tortoises, symbols of long life. She carried a fan of gilded wood on which were painted varicolored flowers. (Her trousseau, invaluable, contained a kimono of twelve thicknesses...