Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...came at 9:19, surrounded by agents of the Secret Police. Wan and pallid, he strode impassively into the station, stepping quickly, clad in an old, serviceable military cloak. At that symbol the crowd cheered, remembering that Lev Davidovich Trotsky had appeared thus when he organized and commanded the Red Army of 1,500,000 men. Today, however, Trotsky is as threadbare as his cloak. Man and symbol they passed, last week, into a drab railway car which rumbled out of Moscow at twenty minutes after nine. The crowd, moved but still perfectly docile, fell to sobbing plenteous Russian tears...
...hold the annual meeting of the Grid Iron Club. It is the one occasion when they can all be good fellows together. The legislative lions are supposed to smile when the literary jackals poke good natured fun at their foibles and failures, and it is an iron clad rule that none of the guests' speeches shall appear in print. Heretics have whispered that the addresses would not be catastrophic if they were released. Certainly the privilege of mocking the mighty was not abused if the gleeful reports in the Sunday papers did the affair justice. The reading of them makes...
Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 made his bow as a Harvard hockey mentor when he sent a large collection of players onto the Arena ice last night to give a 9 to 0, shutout, to M. I. T. For 45 minutes the crimson-clad skaters called about the rink, outplaying the Engineers at every point in the scale of the ice game...
...hold one more conference with party leaders on the very train which carried his brother's coffin out to the Bratiano estate at Florica for burial. Arrived there, the harassed politicians assumed somber mourning faces, then followed the coffin and the royal family through immense crowds of somberly clad peasants, some of whom sprinkled holy water on the slowly passing bier...
...pass of Thermopolae, between the amorphous wall of Mt. Oeta and the stilly Maliac gulf stood King Leonidas with his three hundred now world famous Spartan heros one day in 480, watching the approach of Xerxes and his host of iron clad companions, the sunlight slithering from plumed helmets. The battle began. Complained a Spartan warrior, "Their arrows fly thicker." "The better to shade us," quoth Leonidas...