Word: wear
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well as spectacular was the costume of large, active Anna Wilmarth Thompson Ickes who appeared as a Zuni Indian matron. Long a student of Southwestern Indians and author of a book about them called Mesa Land, the Republican wife of the Secretary of the Interior knew exactly what to wear...
When Ruth Page was a 12-year-old in Indianapolis she saw Anna Pavlowa dance. Then & there she determined to wear fancy costumes and spin on her toes some day. Three years later Ruth Page was touring in Pavlowa's own company...
...make the wedding at Westminster Abbey on America's Thanksgiving Day less severely formal, the Lord Chamberlain permitted male guests to wear their trousers, in the event that they possessed no court breeches...
...will unmercifully put aside all unjustifiable price increases," he announced. "Price increases have taken place in many fields in recent months that are absolutely unbearable. A fear psychosis has crept in from which I would like to liberate those affected. . . . Wear your old clothes down to the last thread if necessary. . . . There is no excuse for any kind of worry about the supply of our daily needs. . . . My first activities will centre on food and clothing, for their prices seem to me the most critical...
Miss Geraldine Farrar aus New York was the rage in Berlin from 1901 to 1906. One night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing...