Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at a party, when she made what she considered a bright remark, the person to whom she was speaking asked: "Who did you hear say that?" Jean Harlow paused bitterly before making another remark which was both brighter and indubitably her own: "My God, must I always wear a low-cut dress to be important...
...Apostolic Faith began late in June. From States as far off as Pennsylvania and New York its adherents gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked numbers of them in a big baptismal tank, sent them home for another year...
...final injection was vaguely identified by Dr. Willard as a sex hormone from sheep. In an hour, Jekal sat up, fingered the adhesive tape on his belly, stared about vacantly. In a day or two the creature was back in its cage, apparently none the worse for wear. In a corner of the laboratory lay the body of another monkey named Matilda, its belly turning blue. Matilda had been "frozen too fast." was dead beyond repair. In the icebox was a third stiff monkey named Gaston, which Dr. Willard did not intend to revive until after a ten-day congealment...
...excited, brings along too many clothes. She arrives in a long-sleeved black dress, finds the temperature 88°. The store allows her $8 a day and carfare. She registers at the Hotel McAlpin, convenient to the garment centre. After notifying the Times and the Women's Wear Daily of her arrival, she calls on her store's resident buyer, who is simply an agent employed to keep it abreast of style changes, make emergency purchases on request. At the resident buyer's office, the girl from Atlanta is assigned a small bare room with enough furniture...
...Portland, Ore., Japanese girls strutted about the campus of Reed College, chuckling over a great private joke. As delegates to the second annual Japan-U. S. Student Conference, they had been asked to appear in kimonos. Since most of them wear Western dresses at home, they had spent a good part of their trip across the Pacific learning, for the first time in their lives, to tie the big, brocaded sashes which traditionally girdle Japanese kimonos...