Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seats for the Yale Game had better change their search to a beautiful girl. The committee of the Harvard-Yale Ball to be held at the Hotel Somerset on the night before the game are offering two free tickets to the most beautiful girl who appears in a red dress and two more to the most beautiful girl in a blue dress. All you have to do is find the girl and the dress, invite her to the dance and then hope she invites you up to the game...
There is your chance for a good cheap weekend. Pay $3.50 for a couple ticket to the Harvard-Yale Ball at the Hotel Somerset; invite a beautiful girl in a blue or red dress and let her win two tickets to the game for you; and then win two seats for the Saturday night production of "DuBarry was a Lady...
Snitching letters and keeping photostats are what every Mystery Woman does and "Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that...
...evils (due to "refusal to recognize the divine majesty") : ". . . immoderate and blind egoism, the thirst for pleasure, immodest and costly styles in dress . . . the lust for power, neglect of the poor, the flight from the land, levity in entering into marriage, divorce . . . birth control . . . neglect of duty to one's country...
...when his family is home, home when they are out. Connie quickly warbles her way into the butler's heart by singing La-calle's Amapola, is soon a popular hit below stairs, where the servants pool their savings to buy her a party dress and silver slippers so that she can go to the great ball. There unknown Connie captures the crowd by caroling a Strauss waltz. Her handsome, horsy young host (Robert Stack) canters over and, while cinemaddicts hold their breath, gives Deanna Durbin her first kiss, which had to be shot twelve times before...