Word: chitons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wearing a blue woolen chiton, black stockings, classical sandals, her red hair in two braids, Mrs. Angelo Sikelianos of Greece, who 32 years ago was Eva Palmer of Manhattan, trudged through the White House doorway one morning when the thermometer was -2° to keep an appointment with Mrs. Roosevelt. Their object: a conference on the "Delphic Movement" and the possibility of setting up a U. S. "hostel"' near the white marble ruins that strew the hillside of Mt. Parnassus where stood the ancient oracle of Delphi...