Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Adam was apparently quite as satisfied with his scanty apron as Eve; but the Lord God was not. Therefore (Genesis III, 21) "unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them...
...Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French officer as yawningly as a dull waiter ties a greasy apron around his belly. Mr. Menjou as Captain Ferreol is confronted with a tough problem: he must either reveal his onetime relations with a lady whom he had loved illicitly or allow the brother of his own fiancee to be hanged for a murder of which the boy is innocent. Taking...
...Ethelbert Talbot, 79, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Bethlehem, Pa., and onetime presiding bishop of his church; in his daughter's home at Tuckahoe, N. Y.; after 36 hours' unconsciousness. His street dress was that of the Church of England Bishop-knee breeches, gaiters and a black silk apron...
Today Harvard is again fortunate in her leadership. She again is making history. As yesterday it was classical dogma which was to be beaten down, so today it is the dogma of the nursery, that dogma which demands the professorial apron strings, face cloth, and Ivory soap. That dogma has turned undergraduate energy and responsible initiative into the great field described so often by the word collegiate. It has lead to a condition where a certain Southern university, which is still holding its classes in a discarded hotel, is campaigning vigorously for a million dollar stadium. Undergraduates and Faculty-alike...
George Remus, onetime bootlegger king. Mr. Remus, clad in white coat, white apron, Palm Beach pants, celebrated the last day of his sentence by personally serving fare more elaborate than the regular prison diet. It was Mr. Remus' third banquet in his 30 days in jail...