Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bower managed to keep her own head on, and presently won the friendship of the Naga chieftains. Now & then people in the outside world got letters from her, exulting over the pictures she was taking of primitive dances and ceremonies. Some of the more pretentious Nagas wore a little apron in front, but most just wore bracelets. They cultivated little patches of cleared jungle for rice, and, like the South American Indians, used drugs to catch fish. They begged Miss Graham-Bower to name their babies. She named most of them Victoria Elizabeth...
...buses which will travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...
...homes which we love, but faced with nude "reality we believe that we have the intestinal fortitude to forget our personal desires and finish the hard, relentless job before us. The point of these two issues is that the Army should let go of Mama's apron strings, and get a little more determination to finish the war before thinking of the good old civilian days...
Szell lives with his striking, chestnut-haired Czech wife in a Manhattan apartment so scrupulously kept that visitors are almost afraid to sit down in it. A devout gourmet, he frequently terrifies his wife by tying an apron around his muscular torso and assuming autocratic control of the kitchen. He resents all imputations of artistic temperament. Says George Szell: "There is nothing interesting about me. I have no hobbies. I am not melancholy. My accounts are all in perfect order. I am so damn normal...
...prince of the church whose natural fierceness of temper has been beaten and battered into benignity. It was a natural gentleness refined by devotion, austerity and great human sympathy. And there was a sense of easy power about him, fitting as comfortably as his open prelatical coat and apron, his greavelike buttoned black gaiters. The Archbishop of York has presence...