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Such minor indignities paled once the ceremony was underway. It began with a procession, almost two hours long, of soldiers in their dressiest uniforms, bards dressed in swirling blue-and-green togas, Welsh politicians in robes of office and British officials, including Prime Minister Harold Wilson, KEYSTONE in morning clothes. The royal family itself was rather subdued. Queen Elizabeth, carrying an Edwardian parasol, was done up in pale gold. Prince Philip wore the dark blue, braided uniform of a field marshal. Prince Charles, who waited in the Chamberlain tower until formally summoned by his mother, wore the No. 1 blues...
...this year are shorter, so shoes are lower. The very high heel is frequently replaced by the capezio-type heel, about an inch shorter in height but just as narrow. Kid with a French accent as well as black suede are dressiest. Toes are semi-pointed to make large feet look smaller...
Henry Seidel Canby's Thoreau, dressiest biography of him so far, is timely rather than definitive. Canby unearths scant new material, finds no satisfactory answers to such speculations as: Was Henry in love with Emerson's wife? Was it Margaret Fuller, the Transcendentalist, to whom he sent his famous "hollow shot" No to a marriage proposal? The fact is that Thoreau's own writings contain just about all there is on Thoreau...
...father's laundry 20 years ago (at 22), he in vented the slogan "Long Live Linen," splashed it all over Washington, dressed his delivery boys in blue-&-gold livery, soon seemed to have a branch on almost every street corner and was washing the fanciest sheets and dressiest shirts in town...
...column, "This New York," in the New York Herald Tribune, Saturday Lucius Beebe '27 characterized Roger D. Laphan '40 as "the dressiest of the current collegiate generation...