Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have tried to show Jurgen facing the unanswerable riddle of why things are as they are; Jurgen, 'clad in the armor of his hurt,' spinning giddily through life, strutting, posturing, fighting, loving, pretending; Jurgen proclaiming himself count, duke, king, emperor, god; Jurgen, beaten at last by the pathos and mystery of life, bidding farewell to that dream of beauty which he had the vision to see but not the strength to follow...
...Walkerton, Ind., a farmer opened a mound, disclosed eight skeletons, one of them clad in copper armor, lying feet together like spokes in a wheel. A giant for stature had a flint arrow head embedded in his skull. The bones appeared to be of Mound Builders...
...delegates, secretaries, assistants, representing the U. S., Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, Japan and China*- with those of Norway, Sweden and Denmark participating by special adherence-swelled the assembly to well over 500 persons, of whom more than half were Chinese, all but one Occidentally clad...
...David Lloyd-George is worried, say the newspapers. A German moving picture, produced as propaganda for the German "naked culture" movement is about to be exhibited in England; and one of the most interesting parts of the film depicts Mr. Lloyd-George, soberly clad in tweed golfing togs, surrounded by an indecorus mob of nude athletes of both sexes. Just how he was inveigled into this pose is not stated. However, the famous statesman doesn't want constituents to connect him with unconventionality, and is doing his best to prevent the film from being shown in England...
Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle of "Health." "There he stands, almost in the garb with which nature clad him, a majestic figure with lungs inflated, pompadour defying the world. His skin . . . is full of strength. . . . He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...