Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beach at Venice the Mayor, brilliantly attired in white flannels and kaleidescopic sweater, strolled among pajama-clad bathers and loiterers. He would don no beach-pajamas, saying that they reminded him of a familiar dream, that of appearing unclad at some social function. Mrs. Walker wore a yellow, fragile garment, a morning dress. At dinner Mayor Walker's trunk had not arrived; ill-dressed for the first time in his political career, he sauntered into the restaurant at his hotel, clad not in evening clothes but in a lounge suit. Cosmopolites, attracted by the Mayor's complete nonchalance...
...next morning Mrs. Coolidge received a visitor in the person of Miss Marguerite Lindsley, forest ranger. She, clad in green riding habit, carrying a gun, informed Mrs. Coolidge that at the Montana Agricultural College she had belonged to Mrs. Coolidge's sorority, Pi Beta...
Eighty thousand Indians, each clad in a red blanket and each with a tiny hat cocked low over his forehead, were reported "in revolt", last week, throughout the interior departments of Potosi, Cochabamba and Sucre...
...Montreal, Mr. Baldwin prepared to hammer and thrust home his concept of trade unity within the Empire by peeling off his coat and vest before an audience of 800 businessmen, many clad in formal day attire. As his hearers gratefully followed the Prime Minister's example, he began to speak with vivid power, thus...
...Even when only two of them are available for a state function they manage admirably to perform their duty to the public. Thus at Quebec last week, thousands of Canadians were joyous as there descended from the S. S. Empress of Australia: 1) His Royal Highness, Edward of Wales, clad Scottishly in the uniform of a Colonel of the Seaforth Highlanders; and 2) His Royal Highness, Prince George Alexander Edmund, wearing the smart full-dress of a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy...