Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York Evening Post sent one Kenneth Campbell, reporter, to interview the Stratons last week. He was meticulously observant and took obvious pleasure in relating how he found Pastor Straton in bed late in the afternoon, "clad in an old-fashioned night shirt. . . . From a gas jet at the head of the bed hung Dr. Straton's black waistcoat, from which dangled the medal he won in a college oratorical contest many years...
These opinions were not spoken in London last week, but they were expressed unmistakably at a ball given on Edward of Wales' birthday night by the Duchess of Sutherland. Out of a baby-carriage, wheeled upon the ballroom floor, jumped a woman clad as an infant. She squalled, pretended to be teething, she was the Duchess of Westminster, wife of Britain's reputedly richest landed peer...
...last week from the Prison Santé. He went there only after 3,000 policemen, firemen, soldiers, had overawed a band of his Royalists numbering 980, and forced him to submit to arrest (TIME, June 13 et seq.). It was a group of these keen-witted, although sometimes foppishly clad, Royalists who filched M. Daudet deftly out of jail last week and spirited him into hiding...
...last Josephine Baker was cornered, in her Montmartre night club, by reporters who demanded detailed explanations. Miss Baker, clad in an Afric dance costume of bright feathers, shrugged nervously, grinned, confessed: "Stories sure do travel fast. It was all something I told my friends for a joke-and see how everybody has taken it seriously. The wedding I spoke of was only just a movie wedding...
...leaflets, the reading of the Ten Commandments in Church, Elmer Gantry vice crusades, or the Pope issuing edicts on the dress of women, are about as effective weapons in deterring people from immoral acts as an Indian bow and arrow would be in piercing the side of an iron-clad battleship. It is not the business of the Church to legislate in morals. . . . The Church's business is to set forward great principles, and not to lay down minute moral directions...