Word: bareheadedness
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Impelled by Signor Mussolini, the newspapers of Rome began, last week, a concerted campaign urging men to go hatless. "A bare head is more hygienic, more comfortable, and more ROMAN," declared Italian editors, recalling that the sturdy citizens of ancient Rome went bareheaded.
Five years ago, one solemn morning, many a statesman, many 'a senator, many a silk-hatted diplomat wound slowly through Washington's broad streets, crossed the green slopes beyond to Arlington, stood uncovered before the casket of the Unknown Soldier. John Wingate Weeks defied physicians' instructions, stood...
The umpire glanced to the right where a huge man in the uniform of a General of the Polish army stood bareheaded in the rain.
At Lahore, India, the coffin of the Maharaja, covered layer upon layer with pure gold, in which he reposed clad in a full state uniform encrusted with jewels, was followed to the cemetery by Sir Hari, barefooted, bareheaded, clad in sackcloth, wearing no jewels. It was publicly cremated while the...
A spirit fetches him back through time to such scenes as the burning of Pythagoras and his Golden Brotherhood, Leonardo picking up fossils on the Florentine hills, Darwin bareheaded before an ant in Kent, Huxley impaling bland Bishop Wilberforce before the British Association. The latter episode, vividly reconstructed, is the...