Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short, blue-eyed man, clad in the street garb of a priest, hurried last week into the great building which houses the Nationalrat (Parliament) in Vienna. As he passed through gloomy corridors only the sharp-eyed saw at this seeming-priest's throat the purple rabat of a monsignor. None the less all present bowed with respect to Mgr. Ignaz Seipel. He had just been created?for the second time;? Chancellor (Premier) of Austria. He is thus at present the sole Christian prelate to head a civil government...
...Holy Cross first-year men are reputed to have a strong team, but the Crimson-clad aggregation has improved steadily, and has attained to a machine-like co-ordination in both attack and defense that bespeaks great possibilities. Last week, in handing a 22 to 0 defeat to Worcester Academy, the Freshmen were not obliged to kick once, so perfect was their throttling of the schoolboy attack...
...Father of our Country standing by the river's brink clad only in humorless dignity...
...Port Fulton, Ind., Mrs. Fahyma Allen marched off to court to obtain a writ compelling the school authorities to permit her daughter Virginia, 9, to attend school clad in knickerbockers. Twice daily for three weeks Virginia had been sent to the school door, twice daily been viewed with alarm and sent home by officials who were shocked to see her spindly extremities encased separately instead of draped in unison. Mrs. Allen, no stickler for fashion, no crusader for a moral cause, merely clung to her point that Virginia's education should not be interrupted pending the extension...
Before twelve thousand calm and quiet spectators, a few white-clad individuals gave an exhibition of the science of tennis in New York on Saturday night. The tennis was good tennis, the audience saw skill, and conflict, and the desire to win. And incidentally they saw well-paid professionals...