Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Artist Arno was christened Curtis Arnoux Peters. He is a robust, dark fellow, as conservative in appearance and dress as a discreet haberdashery poster. In 1922 he graduated from the Hotchkiss School in Lakeville, Conn., where he was voted "Most Musical" and "In Worst with the Faculty." Then he took his banjo to Yale, found plenty of pianos there, alternately drew for the Yale Record and devised original syncopation. At the end of his freshman year he left college, subsequently studied at the Yale art school and Manhattan's Art Students League for a period of a month apiece...
...evening dress was velvet, and 'er firzzy 'air was gold...
...players but at the patently godless Frankfurters who sat in orchestra stalls. Ladies in sparkling décolleté who had never smelt anything worse than an onion, found their gowns and hair suddenly reeking with a liquid that stank like putrid eggs. Gentlemen in evening dress who had never wept, shed rivulets as tear bombs burst around them. Amid frantic pandemonium the élite of Frankfurt rushed stumbling forth pellmell. Meanwhile the good and pious in the gallery-having thrown their last stench bomb-grouped about their clergyman and sang a triumphant hymn...
...Schubert Memorial, Inc. On the notion that Schubert lived his life unrecognized, that today many talented young U. S. musicians are threatened with the same plight, it organized for the purpose of establishing a contact between them and "the representative musical public." Baldly, its plan is to sponsor debuts, dress them glamorously that many and important listeners will be attracted, including-and it was severely stressed-leading critics whose verdicts supposedly are to be of inestimable value to the worthy young débutants...
...students in the Naval Science Department have also been invited. All Seniors and Juniors in the military branch and Juniors and Sophomores in the naval department will be required to were uniforms. Other undergraduates will wear formal dress...