Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haven, Conn., Nov. 19--A dummy scrimmage between the first Yale team and a scrub eleven, clad in crimson jerseys and using the Harvard formations, featured the first workout of the week this afternoon as the Elis began preparation for the final game of the season against the Crimson in Cambridge on Saturday. Every member of the Blue squad reported for practice, including Albie Booth, Hoot Ellis, Alf Beane, and Tom Taylor, all of whom received treatment in the infirmary yesterday for minor injuries...
...Frau Boess were not allowed to forget the Sklarek fur coat. Communists booed and hooted under the Boess windows until driven away by industrious Schupos, then came back to boo and hoot some more. Most persistent was a stalwart young Red who strode up and down before the house clad with eccentric symbolism in an amorphous, shaggy fur coat dyed flaming yellow...
...Clad in their new mid-season uniforms the Harvard players were given a long session with the individual coaches. The line in particular received a great deal of attention, Coaches Dunne and Hubbard drilling them on the finer points of blocking and clearing...
...Borger situation was similar to that in Mexia. City and county officials were conniving with scofflaws, winking at murders, sponsoring speakeasies and brothels. General Wolters supplanted the conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
...section of hell, but a whole section of hell! There was immorality there. Yes, immorality! Hugging and kissing in public. I'm oldfashioned. I'm a Sunday school man." Lawyer Carpenter told the jury he was defending Gastonia. "where the dove of peace hovers around the vine-clad door and the kindly light of the autumn sun kisses the curly hair of happy children." Lawyer Carpenter called the mill-owners, his employers, "a holy gang, a God-serving gang." He recited a poem to Mother, shook hands with Communist Press Agent Liston Oak, sat down...