Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wazir Azarkhan, bright-eyed, perpetually smiling, clad in loose flapping Riffian garments, arrived in a rattletrap motor sent into the Riff to fetch him by the French Government, and promptly showed himself a master at diplomatic higgling, an art known in native Riffi slang as "selling the carpet...
Interference which in New York State is in the form of an optional hint all too easily turns to iron-clad regulation as in the Tennessee imbroglio And even the mild allowance of half an hour a week from school-time is scarcely compatible with a healthy public self-respect. State encouragement of theology is an introversion of initiative implying a lack of confidence in the national fiber--a doubt striking at the foundation of morality...
With levity the New York Sun last week printed some alleged facts about Childs restaurants, facts which were not denied. Ac cording to the account, the management, which had shrewdly established white as symbolic of the cleanliness of foods served by the 3,500 white-clad waitresses in their 109 white-tiled restaurants, is as shrewdly beginning to insert cheer ful green among the white tiles. "Younger and prettier" serving girls are to be hired and are to wear uniforms trimmed with green. "The girls are just the same as the tile," an officer of the company is alleged...
...Integration. Then to counteract this I shall blossom forth amid the literary buds in Sever 28 where ten o'clock will find Professor Lowes discussing Shelley--a far from, integrated person--or was he? At least I know the story about the ladies and his crossing the room clad only in disremembrance...
George Emerson Smith '26, clad in a white sweater, hatless, and wearing heavy hiking boots arrived at the City Hall of Worcester shortly after 2 o'clock, Saturday afternoon Smith had hiked the distance of 44 miles from Boston to Worcester in ten hours and 14 minutes, a record time...