Word: clad
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first vesper service of the year will be held this afternoon at 5 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. The special music will be two selections from Garrett's "Harvest Cantata" and the solo "With 'Verdure Clad" from Haydn's "Creation" by Henry Dolan...
...brought to their notice, to take prompt action to insure that the honors they are about to bestow be fairly and honestly won. There will be close contests for some places; friends will solicit votes for their favorites; that is inevitable. There should be, however, no more iron-clad pledging of men, in clubs or out, to support a man for a particular office merely because his name is on the slate. Clique and society lines should be obliterated in Harvard class elections. It is impossible to see how the true Harvard spirit can be fully awakened so long...
...first half describes the appearance in the court of King Arthur, at Yuletide, of a stalwart knight all clad in green, who challenges the assembled knights to a strange contest. The green knight offers to allow any man present to deal him a blow with his axe on condition that he (the green knight) may deal a return blow a twelvemonth hence at the Green Chapel. Sir Gawain is the only knight valiant enough to accept the challenge. Accordingly, with a ponderous blow he chops off the green knight's head. But the latter picks his head up again...
...doors and creating a sensation seldom equalled in the regular season. The coolness of the Tremont is something unprecedented, the decorations unequalled, and the special features with which the management regales its patrons have all proved very successful. In the lobbies, between the acts, a beautiful Egyptian girl, Frommia, clad in the richest raiment of the East, dispenses from an Oriental booth Egyptian cigarettes to gentlemen; and in another part of the foyer, piano and vocal concerts are given at each intermission, making the broad halls a charming promenade...
...also falls in love with a customer. The two girls give their lovers two rings, which the lovers swear never to part with, and the same evening present them to two grand ladies at a ball, who are no other than their sweethearts of the morning, now clad in their legitimate raiment. The two gentlemen, in the middle of the night, play at burglars, and bind the squire in his chair and rob him. Dorothy, disguised in male attire, challenges her lover to fight a duel, and, the challenge being accepted, displays arrant cowardice, thus making the denouement and inevitable...