Word: trousseau
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...city and environs as leader of "He Goat" (local equivalent of Tammany Hall). Once when Tom and his family were away, robbers looted his $100,000 home of $150,000 worth of jewels and clothes including 480 pairs of silk stockings bought for his daughter Marceline's trousseau. However, Tom was in Manhattan at the time, and was reported to have won $200,000 from New York bookies betting on a horse...
...high roof, its stucco walls, its stone front, is more an English mansion than a Japanese residence. Within, awaiting them, were the ancient customary gifts: the Tai, king of fishes, the cask of purified saké, the hemp, incense, seaweed. There also was the bride's elaborate trousseau, including many a Parisian gown. Throughout the house sprawled electricity, plumbing. And further, Prince and Princess had gone to live in their very own home, not in the old fashioned way to the home of the bridegroom's parents. Further the Princess is not of imperial blood which formerly would...
Only a few hours before the issuance of this jilt direct, the Senorita Mercedes Castellanos had informed reporters that she was on the point of leaving Madrid for Paris to superintend the completion of her trousseau...
...have strong purpose and scholarship and attractive personality, these young people should be turned away from the teaching profession." Every teacher, man or woman, must come to regard teaching as a permanent occupation, not a makeshift until he or she studies law or goes into business or accumulates a trousseau, is his belief...
...Stanfield of Oregon was arrested in September, 1925, on charges of drunkenly throwing crockery around a restaurant, that he rescued a drowning woman at Atlantic City last July, that he was sued three weeks ago by two Manhattan modistes for $1,121, allegedly owed for his daughter's trousseau...