Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many an imperial legend clusters about her name. One is traced to American-girl-glorifier Ziegfeld. Then managing strong man Sandow's tour, he boldly invited Mrs. Palmer to the dressing-room. Pantie-clad, Sandow's bulging thews, barrel chest, excited her admiration. "What marvelous muscles!" Sandow tautened his biceps. "Feel them," he said. Mrs. Palmer did. Precedent was established. Thenceforward, claims Ziegfeld, thirty women appeared after each performance, prodded and pinched the chuckling Sandow...
Resplendently clad Peers and heavily robed bishops rose. In the galleries diamonded Peeresses stared, rustled, bowed. Lights blazed and kindled the darting iridescences of a thousand gems. No gem, however, burned more richly than the famous Cullinan Diamond which, as all could see, the Queen-Empress was wearing...
Rode forth the Tenno, clad as a Field Marshal, in his great Louis XIV enclosed carriage, emblazoned with the 16 petaled Imperial Chrysanthemum, surmounted by a great golden Phoenix-symbol of inextinguishable Radiance...
...like that of England, is one of continual invasion. Already this year the Vagabond has seen successive onslaughts by cadets, Indians, Quakers and other forces, and here another weekend is at hand and with it he discovers that his favorite haunts have been invaded by an army of purple-clad Crusaders. And so, not feeling up to playing the part of a Saracen even for the protection of his lares and penates, he has fled for the duration of the struggle to parts unknown-unknown, that is, to anyone that would intrude on his retreat...
...Arranger. Soft-voiced, suavely clad, brilliant Charles Seymour took a B. A. from Cambridge University when he was 19, then sailed home to his native New Haven, Conn., and took another B. A. from Yale. Since then the bright facets of Professor Seymour's mind have received an exquisite polish in the process of acquiring numerous exalted degrees, teaching history at Yale, helping to make it at the Paris Peace Conference, and writing or "arranging" various books dealing with the more secret phases...