Word: clad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clad in the attire of a "simple country gentleman," the ex-Crown Prince made his first public appearance at Oels by attending a concert. The inhabitants of the Silesian village treated him as the Crown Prince. When he entered the concert hall the entire audience rose and as His Imperial Highness passed by, women and girls made low courtesies and the males sung a chorus of "hochs" for the Crown Prnice and the Monarchy. When the Prince left, the audience again manifested its attachment to the House of Hohenzollern...
When Ambassador Harvey appeared at a London court function clad in knee breeches and buckled shoes he was ridiculed in the United States for aping the undemocratic aristocracy of the Old World. Yet the right to a salute of nineteen guns, to ride in a coach and six, and to be honored as the dignity and power of his state would be honored, is not inconsistent with democracy. Indeed the American ambassador to St. James who in his simple evening dress was mistaken for a butler and commanded by a haughty European ambassador to "call my coach, sirrah!" would undoubtedly...
...votes are a majority; in the House 218 votes. The Republicans list on paper 50 Senators and 225 Representatives?but only on paper. The La Follette group numbers 10 or 15 in the Senate and from 25 to 50 in the House. They are not bound by iron-clad allegiance to Mr. La Follette; some will come and some will go on every issue, but there are enough of the La Follette-minded always to form a group that will hold the balance of power...
When Does the Goose Creep Into the Flesh? It was nearly half past three in the morning. Somewhere a clock tolled the hour-twelve long strokes. Down the shadow-shrouded stairway moved a skeleton, clad only in a pair of violet pajamas. Softly, sibilantly, the spectre sped. An errant mouse cried out in terror, his hoarse shriek breaking the tense stillness. At the foot of the stairs a single, shining shaft of moonshine drenched the leg of a human being, severed at the knee, lying in a pool of gore. Arsenic Hatpin, gentleman capitalist, inserted a single eyeglass deftly into...
...Clad in full army, kit weighing about 90 pounds, two British M. P.'s will walk from Banbury to Oxford, 23 miles, to decide...