Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lahore, India, the coffin of the Maharaja, covered layer upon layer with pure gold, in which he reposed clad in a full state uniform encrusted with jewels, was followed to the cemetery by Sir Hari, barefooted, bareheaded, clad in sackcloth, wearing no jewels. It was publicly cremated while the nobles threw gold continuously into the flames. In penance for his indiscretions, Sir Hari submitted to the worst Indian indignity-the shaving off of his mustache...
...powers exclusively for the CRIMSON during the coming gridiron season. Mr. Forecast is universally recognized as one of the leading football critics in the East. He first came into prominence two years ago when he succeeded in convincing five of his six Freshman advisees that it was an iron-clad. Harvard tradition for Freshmen to give one of their Yale football tickets to their student advisor. Mr. Forecast, or Joe, as he allows CRIMSON editors to call him, offered last year to put his monumental football knowledge to the use of the University. From his seat in QQ, Section...
Sailing on the Paris, M. Caillaux was intercepted and honored by a British squadron off Plymouth. In the early dawn his terrified fellow passengers: rushed scantily clad upon deck. "Est-ce encore la guerre?" they demanded, wild-eyed. It was M. Caillaux receiving a thundering British salute of 21 guns...
...treading Secretary of Interior, the tired Secretary of the Treasury, the stocky Secretary of Labor, the firm-set Postmaster General, the rather unwieldy Secretary of the Navy, the youthful Acting Secretary of War and the three who had welcomed the. incoming train, Mr. Hoover, Mr. Jardine and Mr. Kellogg (clad, this time, in a white palm beach suit and carrying a straw...
...great vessel began to tremble with the churning of her screws. Gradually she backed away from the dock and drew put into the Solent. Suddenly a little tug, the Southampton Roadster, left the shore and pushed toward the liner. The tug's deck was crowded with roughly clad men. Were the strikers actually going to attack the leviathan? As the tug came alongside, a line was thrown to her. At last the passengers understood. The bootlegged crew, who had been hidden all night, clambered up the ship's sides and officers rushed them to their posts. The passengers...