Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clad in immaculate evening clothes, shod in shining leather, gloved in white kid, and wearing a glossy silk hat, Comrade L. M. Karakhan, first Bolshevik Ambassador to China, entered a golden state coach drawn by six ebony horses. He was accompanied by General Huang Kai-wen, Master of Ceremonies, and escorted by 24 cavalry outriders, as he was whisked off to present his credentials to Marshal Tsao Kun, President of China...
Recently one of Mr. Hearst's Manhattan properties published a picture of a group of his press hands. They were seated on a staircase in their working clothes, with short sleeves, open collar? and the signs of toil upon them. In the middle of the front row, clad in overalls and looking no better and no worse than the rest was a lad singled out by a white arrow. Said the editorial 'beneath...
...atoned in Paradise for all his little indiscretions and his formula 'The public likes to be fooled.'" The medium's great-aunt, "Julia Ward Howe," related haltingly the embarrassment of her first experience in the spirit world, when she found herself before the great "Judge of the Dead," clad only in "a very remarkable head of hair, my dear nephew, something like Lady Godiva...
...were all smiles. Carp smiled his customary gracious smile; and Gibbons smiled his good-natured smile. At the end of the bout Gibbons was still smiling his good-natured smile. Carp however, was not smiling. Gibbons wore a dark heavy sweater under a dark brown dressing-gown. Carp was clad in a light gray robe with black fringes. As the two fighters shook hands, Carp was heard to exclaim in English : "Good luck to you !" The Fight. Carpentier, though managing to remain vertical until the end, was converted into a pulp of bruised and bloody flesh by the slashing head...
...broken pieces of steel- a subject that has not as yet become hackneyed. Others that stand out are the lithograph, Mother with Child, by 17-year-old Pamela Bianco (TIME, March 24), an expressive piece; the Lady in Yellow, by Leo Katz, a classic portrait of Mme. Archipenko clad in voluminous drapery; a barnyard scene by Stefan Hirsch; a nude by Bernard Karfiol...