Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third of a nation" (by Arthur Arent; Living Newspaper, producer). When President Roosevelt in his second inaugural address, January 20, 1937, declared that he found in the U. S. ". . . one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, and ill-nourished," he spoke a resounding mouthful. Last week the Federal Theatre made that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music...
When ambitious little President Getulio Vargas of Brazil made himself an iron-clad dictator (TIME, Nov. 22), the alarmed press of democratic countries cried: "Naziism Invades Brazil." Most scared of all by this announcement was Dictator Vargas who had only intended to follow an old Latin American custom. Last week, informed that Government functionaries had ordered the deportation of 1,200 aliens who had entered Brazil as tourists and remained illegally, Dictator Vargas was shocked to learn that 900 of them were Jewish fugitives from Germany. To prevent the cry of "Nazi" being raised again, he hastily announced that...
...common sight around Harvard Square these days to see "indifferent" Harvard skiiers clad in the latest in skiing clothes packing equipment on automobiles and preparing to leave the cares of college studies for the white expanse of the New England mountains...
...hand on her thigh, she socks him, he socks her back into the muck, swings off into the tangled forest. On his next visit he fights off an enraged lioness, but when he zips back into his trees, nobody will believe Eleanor's story. Then one day Eleanor, clad in a neat white jumper suit, strolls into the bush. Tarzan snatches her away to his eyrie. On the bank of his jungle swimming hole Tarzan makes funny motions, meaning "Can you swim?" Yes, Mrs. Jarrett can swim. Off comes the jumper, revealing a natty white swimsuit...
...wrangle the delegates interrupted their recriminations, marched out on the snow-covered campus, lit matches to a pile of boxes. One girl kicked off her shoes, stripped the silk stockings off her legs and, standing bare-foot in the snow, hurled the stockings into the fire. Other silk-clad girls followed suit, snatched the silk ties from male delegates. When all the silk in sight had disappeared, they raced into the dormitories, returned with other armloads of students' underthings. Around the fire danced the delegates chanting: Make lisle the style, wear lisle for a while. If you wear cotton...