Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toppled by Tech a week ago, what was one of the best hundred and fifty pound crews ever to wear the Crimson was defeated by the Yale eight Saturday in a heartbreaking race at Derby...
...Army post). Top rank is colonel, with base pay of $4,000 a year, plus $156 a month if the chaplain has a family. Most chaplains are married, but not a few join the service to get away from church suppers and sewing clubs. Others like to wear a uniform, relish the security of a chaplaincy as compared with a poor parish, or are eager-especially since the founding of the CCC-to do God's work among men who are comparatively insulated from the badness of the world...
...sound so far as it went; trouble was, it did not go far enough. It was selling $1,500,000 worth of groceries a year, mostly canned goods, and concessionaires were selling another $1,000,000 worth of fruits, vegetables, refrigerators, tobacco, liquor, house furnishings, men's wear. What the supermarket needed, said President Sowles. was a women's apparel department. Last week in one section of the supermarket blossomed "Fashion Avenue." a row of five separate shops which are expected to develop a $500,000 annual volume. The shop windows have no glass, so that customers...
Lots of "firsts" are frequently claimed by people who have more self-assertiveness than actual knowledge of affairs, and I would wager that many a one in the men's wear business, no matter by whom it is now claimed, can be traced right back to Madison Avenue & 44th Street or Broadway corner 22nd Street...
Momentos of the ascension of James II include elaborate rules for ladies's wear, and descriptions of the fireworks celebrating the occasion. The Duke of Norfolk, in charge of the ceremonies in 1685, ordered the women to wear "petticoats" of "cloath of silver," and to allow their "surcoats to open before, that the petticoats may show." Two weeks before the event he ordered that no person attending the coronation, either as a guest of spectator "do appear in Mourning Habit for that...