Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before the House stretched a week's brass-knuckle debate. Until the last chap ter, the Senate's had been a different and duller story. For three stodgy weeks that body had shifted uneasily about in the un accustomed formal garments of full-dress debate. But last week the Senate, almost to a man, happily shucked its tight collar, stripped off the white gloves. The nodding press gallery awoke, and in five days of catch-as-catch-can heckling the Senate finished its task, passed the Pittman Bill after 26 days and 1,000,000 words...
...year's reserves, and only one man, Tom Healey, who started against the Princeton eleven a year ago in the Stadium. To bring further gloom to Harvard rooters, Dick Harlow yesterday announced that neither Macdonald nor Hallett would see any action Saturday. Chances are that they won't even dress...
Great joy was what the Anderson story brought to the heart of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, chief propagandist for Adolf Hitler. Hitherto personally muted since war began, Dr. Goebbels last week seized this occasion for a full-dress radio tirade against Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British Admiralty chief. He said Mr. Anderson "proved" that Mr. Churchill had the Athenia blown up with a bomb set off aboard at a wireless signal, later had destroyers finish the job. Direct translation of his remarks in German (which were toned down, as customary, in an official English version) read: "That...
Miss Mollie went to the White House to tea, dressed in a new plum-colored dress. She was so overwhelmed by meeting Mrs. Roosevelt that she could not remember what the First Lady had said to her, besides, "Why, I read about you in the paper this morning. . . ." Miss Moilie had other little adventures...
...south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch from James Oliver Curwood when Pete kills a farmer in hand-to-hand fight. The story then swings quickly to mild Faulkner ; Tom loses Pete but finds Lucy, a wild little girl...