Word: formals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Londoners, who have often smiled at U. S. hero-hysteria, took the occasion to make the return of Amy a public demonstration of the prowess of Young Britain, a formal refutation of "decay in the gardens of England." "I wish to emphasize particularly," said Lord Thomson, "that 1930 has been a young woman's year...
Paul Poiret, always theatrical, startled fashion scouts with high Elizabethan ruffs on formal afternoon dresses, with lame skirts over lace trousers, an evening sensation...
...cutaway we should wear a wing collar and a bow tie. I hate to say it but I fear the vest is not quite smart. It should be cut quite low. If you wish to be informal, wear a sack suit but if you start out to be formal, you must go all the way. This costume simply isn't smart...
Last week the reformed Young German Order appeared to be the backbone of the Staatspartei. Also in the fold was the old Democratic Party, which has been losing deputies at every election since 1919 until its formal dissolution last week. Friedrich Baltrusch and Ernst Lemeer, Protestant Trade Unions leaders, were listed among the new party's leaders. Observers saw in this an attempt to bring into the Staatspartei the Protestant workers of Germany as the German Centrist party absorbed German Catholic workmen...
...Parme, ex-Empress of Austria-Hungary. In the baggage of the clerk and the mendicant monk (Felix Christian and Father Charles Otto by name) were some typical royalist pamphlets. More interesting were bundles and bundles of membership blanks for a League of Prayer the object of which is the formal beatification of the ex-Habsburg Emperor Karl I, indomitable Zita's late husband...