Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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England to Australia. Dennis Rooke, onetime member of the British Royal Flying Corps, clad in a grey lounge suit and civilian overcoat climbed in his Moth de Havilland plane last week; set out for Australia, 11,000 miles away. He took along a collapsible bathtub, a few spare parts and maps. He in-tended to make short, leisurely hops. The flight was stimulated by a $10,000 bet, which was later canceled...
Lucky Men. The pageant began when Their Majesties arrived at Victoria Station, London, to await M. le Président. Round about stood, like seeming giants, the Foot Guards in their enormous, tall, bearskin hats. On prancing coal black horses sat stiffly the Horse Guards, clad in white buckskin breeches and silver-plated body armor. Across the Royal Waiting Room and down the platform was spread a great crimson carpet...
Freshman social life will reach its climax tonight with the appearance of blue and white clad youths and fair damsels, the twinkle of long lines of fantastically colored lanterns, and the sound of soft music in the usually prosale quadrangle of Smith Halls, for it is the night of the Jubilee...
Thus spoke James Ramsay Macdonald, leader of the British Labor party last week at Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia. He has been severely ill with laryngitis, but last week his physician, Dr. Solomon Solis-Cohen, allowed him to receive reporters. A Morris chair was set at his bedside, and Mr. Macdonald, clad in flannel pajamas, got up, donned a bathrobe, sat down?frequently mopping his brow with a folded handkerchief. He spoke in a bitter, tired voice of the British Government's now pending anti-strike bill (TIME, April...
...dolls soon people his world, absorb his life. Mr. Muir has used the intricate pattern of themal relationships in the fugal form upon which to base the coordination of his characters. There are the parallel situations in separate but allied planes, of Martin striving to influence his son, now clad in the costume of the puppet Faust, compared with Haas groping to move his own dolls as freely as dance the marionettes, and the complete harmonious development of each strand of story upon itself and upon every other strand is clothed in the descriptive melody of surrounding Salzaburg...