Word: appareled
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...August's windows have just taken shape. No flash or luxury items this year; gadgets, leather cases, etc. are out. Practical wearing apparel is featured in this citadel of tradition, but a new line of ties has sneaked in somehow, and is expected to be successful...
...characters in Brideshead, in his Memoirs of an Aesthete (recently published in England): "An almost inseparable boon companion at Oxford was a little faun called Evelyn Waugh. Though others assure me that he has changed past recognition, I still see him as a prancing faun, thinly disguised by conventional apparel. His wide-apart eyes, always ready to be startled under raised eyebrows, the curved, sensual lips, the hyacinthine locks of hair...
Last fortnight, Colonial asked CAB if it wouldn't just skip the hearing and issue an order one way or the other. In support of its free-ski policy, Colonial added: "Skis are standard apparel for many people during many months of the year. To charge extra for a pair of skis would be tantamount to charging extra for a pair of overshoes." But at week's end, ponderous CAB had not yet terminated or illuminated its obscuration...
...display of power and pomp, a cavalcade of retainers and richly housed palfreys, nor by gorgeous apparel, that the heretics win proselytes. It is by zealous preaching, by apostolic humility, by austerity. Zeal must be met by zeal, humility by humility, false sanctity by real sanctity, preaching falsehood by preaching truth. Sow the good seed as the heretics sow the bad. Cast off those sumptuous robes. Send away those brightly caparisoned palfreys. Go barefoot, without purse or scrip, like the apostles...
...Early for Wolves. Rumors of a collapse in the slumping women's apparel industry (one report had 75% of the women's coat-&-suit makers in New York idle) flew so thick & fast that many manufacturers were hard put to deny them all. Up-&-coming Henry Rosenfeld, Inc. (TIME, June 10) was so harassed by reports of its imminent failure that it finally took full-page ads in Manhattan's Sunday papers to dispel them with its balance sheet. Main point: cash in bank, $1,119,006.70; "owed to banks...