Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Later 5,000 adolescents of both sexes, their leader clad in the bright green jacket and corduroy breeches of the "German Youth Movement," assembled in their Berlin hall where neither smoking nor drinking is allowed, and voted by acclaim a resolution condemning the Schund und Schmutz bill as "a blow to German Kultur...
Occidentals recalled that the late King Rama VI (TIME, Dec. 7, 1925) introduced a resplendent offshoot of the Boy Scout movement into Siam and went about attended by Boy Scouts who were actually potent nobles clad in uniforms of his invention, portentous with insignia and crowned with regulation felt hats bedecked with plumes...
Aboard the Berengaria Queen Marie at first kept to her suite of staterooms, alleging mal de mer, though the crossing was anything but rough. Later she dined at the captain's table. Princess Ileana, clad in a grey one-piece bathing suit, swam several times in the ship's pool, accompanied by Prince Nicholas...
...Aubrey Beardsley," wrote a critic, "was in the summer of 1896 ... he was then seriously ill, indeed not expected to live, but he was in high spirits. . . . Although it was a day of brilliant sunshine, the curtains were drawn, and the room lighted by many tall candles. Aubrey Beardsley, clad in a yellow dressing gown, and wearing red slippers turned up at the toes, was working. As I entered he waved, laughed his gay laugh, then coughed horribly...
...cover displayed a reproduction of the marble "Greek Slave" in the Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, which has the air at first glance of being a young woman clad only in police handcuffs. Aside from this bit of salesmanship by sex appeal, however, the contents of Your Body was almost humorously devoid of erotic motif. Ponderous, on cheap paper, its make-up was technically horrible...