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Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...gushing in his ear. "Y'know, I'm a delegate from Latvia, but I haven't been to a single meeting. I've been up in a fellow's room in the Law School since Thursday afternoon." A blank-faced silver-spangled gown cut in. He executed a delicate dip...
...Hamlet says, "Woe to him who at this duel will dip the point into poison. Such a one will surely fall and die by his own treacherous...
...such celebration, indeed frowns upon it as superstitious, many a Catholic in Ireland and in Irish-settled districts of the U.S. took to the waters. Especially crowded were the sea beaches fringing New York City. On Staten Island, believers arose at dawn, thinking that the earlier the dip the more sure the cure. Method of seeking cures- for anything from headache to cancer-is to bathe thrice, praying the while. But the old and the obese content themselves with a few splashes. Less credulous Catholics have the full approval of the Church in offering novenas (nine-day prayers) in honor...
...pinching but high-bosomed, hourglass effects achieved by elastic sheaths, tight perhaps but with few corset bones or lacings. ¶ Daytime necklines are either modest V's or 'tend high and round with variations such as mannish stocks and severe, up standing Chinese collars. Necklines for evening dip to bareback and bosom-molding levels. ¶ For afternoon and evening, sheaths of rich, soft materials (velvets, velours, sat ins, soft brocades) create the new "mermaid silhouet" or "sheath line" as far as the knee or even midcalf, below which ruffles, pleats, godets and full circular hems encrusted like...