Word: tuxedoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors of these experiments were one Alfred Loomis of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., and Professor Robert W. Wood of Johns Hopkins University. The latter, many a layman recalled, is a genius of wide and varied activities. It was he who devised the method now so common of thawing frozen water pipes by passing electricity through them. Color photography and extensive researches on light have earned him important medals. He has studied secret signaling. He has written diverting fiction as well as three volumes on physical optics. His woodcuts are well-known, especially those illustrating the nonsense rhymes, How to Tell...
...actor, his passage paid by Al Jolson, comedian. On the boat Mr. Morrison, penniless, had frolicked. Now he called into his stateroom the ship's men who had served him, told them that he had no money. "But wait," he cried, opening his trunk. . . . His steward received a tuxedo, his "boots" every cravat except one. He gave every shirt except the one on his back to the bottle-boy, and the waiter was rewarded with a pair of cufflinks...
...first years after the war, at Covent Garden, London, a pair of "plus-fours" was seen. Following this outrage the tuxedo, dinner garment of touts dining in company and gentlemen dining alone, appeared frequently in the boxes, where none without full evening dress dared enter in the days when good King Edward reigned. Last week the management of Covent Garden made evening dress once more obligatory...
Engaged. Miss Constance Woolworth McCann, granddaughter of the late Frank W. Woolworth (Nickel and Dime Stores); to Wyllys Rosseter Betts Jr., of Manhattan and Tuxedo Park...
Married. Miss Louise King of Tuxedo Park, N. Y., great-great- granddaughter of Commodore Vanderbilt; to Kenneth A. Shaw of Newport...