Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next June, with slow and stately steps, two men, clad in academic robes slashed with purple, scarlet, white, will lead a colorful procession down Providence's College Street...
...whose prowess threatens to send the Cadets back to the Highlands of the Hudson sadder and wiser men. But be the threat great or small it has always been the pride of Navy men that when their brothers in khaki sally forth to battle they will find their blue-clad shipmates behind them to a man, glorying in their victories and suffering with them in their defeats. And Army men, likewise, make the Navy's cause their own against a common adversary...
Tsar Boris of Bulgaria perhaps did not hear, at Sofia, last week, that his father, the abdicated Tsar Ferdinand, was seen in Vienna to chase a black cat with oaths out of his hotel bedroom. Other guests testified that Ferdinand, barefoot, clad in nightshirt, pursued cat down corridor...
...champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality, and as proof of its potability offered an iron-clad guarantee: "If you are not satisfied with the champagne you make, your money will be returned to you. "If you are not satisfied, we will send a man to destroy the champagne and he will give you a check. "If you spoil it through your own negligence, you get your...
...bevy of Adonises, clad in bathing trunks without tops,*were judged according to standard occidental notions of masculine perfection. Plump tummies, esteemed by Orientals, were ruthlessly penalized by slightly tubby Judge Citroen...