Word: bedight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like the way our pilots are stunting over this crowd," said the President-Elect Eduardo Santos last week to War Minister Alberto Pumarejo as they stood on a brilliantly bedight reviewing stand, surrounded by Colombian dignitaries and their wives, watching a review opening Bogotá's great new military field, Campo de Marte...
Most popular number is one in which Mussolini, Hitler, Eden and a Japanese general, bedight with halos and wings, slyly kill each other with pistols, daggers, machine guns tucked away in their angelic robes. All the while they sweetly sing...
...King George VI, handsomely bedight as Admiral of the Fleet, was standing in his splendid Throne Room at Buckingham Palace, receiving the diplomatic corps for the first time since His Majesty's accession. In strict order of precedence, each diplomat was presented by Lieut. General Sir Sidney Clive, a vigorous Court functionary with a clarion voice. In 1919 he was Military Governor at Cologne, cordially hated by its Germans, as were all the Allied "conquerors." Last week German Ambassador von Ribbentrop, instead of bowing to King George when presented by Sir Sidney, clicked his heels smartly together, gave...
...afternoon bedight as a Field Marshal, he motored to Victoria Station. There amid jostling notables waited "The Man From Tasmania." famed Premier Joseph Lyons of Australia who has restored the finances of that spendthrift dominion...
...Apprentice-Jockey Jack Westrope, 16: five races in a single afternoon,* on horses Bedight, Lady Menifee, Whirling, Cold Check and Prince Farthing; at Washington Park, Chicago. ¶ Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player: the French hard court singles title, defeating Henri Cochet in the final, 8-6, 6-1, 6-3; at Auteuil, France...