Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hermann Göring was first. Slimmed down, limply clad in a grey suit that once fitted him snugly, he strode into the courtroom at Nürnberg, flanked by two white-helmeted military policemen. He stood erect under the glaring lights, fixed headphones to his ears. British Presiding Lord Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence looked sternly down on the No. 2 Nazi and pronounced sentence: death by hanging...
Shuffling briskly between fervent opinion and intimate revelation, As He Saw It is far more interesting in the second role. Elliott must be one of a tiny handful who have seen Winston Churchill "stalking about the room, clad only in a cigar." Bits like this and F.D.R.'s comments on his contemporaries, as remembered by Elliott, will be noted by more serious biographers. Sample F.D.R. comments...
...rich; the local miner's union donated a handmade altar. Even St. Michael ("the saint who took on Kid Lucifer and put him down and out for the full count") came across with a couple of helpful miracles, and the corpse's ghost made several personal appearances, clad in "a faded blue dress...
Roads, Restrictions & Rates. Alaskans had scores of grievances. They wanted roads-one overall-clad woman dramatized the request by tramping in to see the Secretary, announcing she had left her tractor mired to the carburetor two miles outside of town. Gold operators complained that the Army hired their help away. Hundreds asked for release of Government lands, an end to restrictions which discourage homesteading. Alaska was in terrible need of hospitals, particularly tuberculosis hospitals. And there was always the subject of high freight rates...
...striking new figures in Hollywood last week was a Church of England clergyman. The Rev. Brian Hession, 37, was appearing at the best parties clad in a checked, double-breasted suit topped by a clerical collar. But handsome Brian Hession, vicar of a parish of 12,000 people in Aylesbury, England, was not in Hollywood just...