item: #1 of 3
          id: 18901
      author: Burbank, Emily
       title: Woman as Decoration
        date: None
       words: 41486
      flesch: 64
     summary: With the assistance of thirty-three illustrations to throw light upon the text, we have tried to tell the beguiling story of decorative woman, as she appears in frescoes and bas reliefs of Ancient Egypt, on Greek vases, the Gothic woman in tapestry and stained glass, woman in painting, stucco and tapestry of the Renaissance, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century woman in portraits. As a matter of fact, decorative woman rules the fashions, and if decorative woman makes up her mind to retain a line or a limit, she does it.
    keywords: art; artist; background; black; blue; body; century; chapter; clothes; colour; costume; costuming; day; decoration; dress; fashion; form; gold; good; gothic; gown; greek; hair; hand; hat; head; illustration; jewels; life; line; men; mind; modern; mrs; neck; new; outline; period; plate; point; portrait; red; room; time; type; use; waist; way; wear; white; woman; work
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        item: #2 of 3
          id: 27212
      author: Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
       title: The Life of the Party
        date: None
       words: 15870
      flesch: 78
     summary: But the reader and I, better informed than any lamp post could be as to the prior sequence of events, would know at a glance it was no parsnip we beheld, but Mr. Algernon Leary, now suddenly enveloped, through no fault of his own, in one of the most overpowering predicaments conceivable to involve a rising lawyer and a member of at least two good clubs; and had we but been there to watch him, knowing, as we would know, the developments leading up to this present situation, we might have guessed what was the truth: That Mr. Leary was hot bent upon retreating to the only imaginable refuge left to him at this juncture--to wit, the interior of the stranded taxicab which he had abandoned but a short time previously. It's a gentleman calling on Mr. Slack, wheezed Mr. Leary with his head over the balusters.
    keywords: bob; carroway; cassidy; door; floor; head; home; house; leary; life; man; moment; mrs; overcoat; party; person; right; slack; street; switzer; time; voice; way; wot
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        item: #3 of 3
          id: 34845
      author: Gardiner, Florence Mary
       title: The Evolution of Fashion
        date: None
       words: 29509
      flesch: 66
     summary: Men wore eight indispensable articles of dress, the shirt, breeches, stockings, shoes, coat, surcoat or cotehardie, mantle, and head dress. Among many other notable costumes should be mentioned the Marchioness of Tweedale's, as the Empress Josephine, as she appears in the Coronation picture at the Louvre, Paris; the Marchioness of Londonderry, as the Empress Marie Thérèse, of Austria, and the Marchioness of Zetland's, as Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I. of England; Viscountess Raincliffe, as the Empress Catherine II. of Russia, wore white satin, and her dress was an exact copy of the picture in the British Museum by Lambi.
    keywords: black; blue; body; bride; century; children; cloth; costume; court; day; dress; fashion; flowers; form; gloves; gold; gown; hair; head; henry; high; husband; illustration; king; lace; ladies; lady; linen; marriage; mourning; period; present; queen; reign; roman; royal; satin; shoes; silk; silver; skirt; sleeves; time; velvet; wear; white; women; years
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