Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Master Sergeant Baldassare never took his eyes from the multi-clad general. "I saw Japanese officers riding along the route," he said. "There is one in this place right now that I can recognize who was riding in an official car-Lieut. General Homma. I asked a Japanese guard, 'Who is that man?' He said: 'That is General Homma...
...Leon's bright, sun-spattered zocalo (public square), the air was electric with resentment. Thirty thousand Mexicans stood silent and dry-eyed as pyjama-clad workmen bore past them the 27 flag-draped coffins. Behind the coffins trudged women, heads covered and bowed, some with armloads of white lilies, others with dark rebozos draped over nursing child and naked breast. At the cemetery an angry, white-faced priest shouted: "Long live Christian democracy...
...frequently climbs out of herself in double-exposure to step into her dream life (a series of low-budget production numbers in a light operatic vein). Her waking existence involves a rich theatrical playboy (Franchot Tone), the youthful owner (David Bruce) of an all-night diner and six ill-clad orphans who play it for pathos. Susanna Foster wades into her role with breathless enthusiasm, bubbling and flaring as the script demands. Her ardor is not shared by Franchot Tone, who goes about his post-adolescent lovemaking with one eye on the lady and the other on the time clock...
...nothing on wheels; they did not walk like conquered men. In twisted alleys and along the teeming Bun Chung, G.I.s shopped for kimonos. In the "Grill Room Hollywood" they made faces over the villainous brandy. At the "International Cultural Association" they danced (at two yen a dance) with slack-clad Kihsang girls. Over & over, the eleven-piece band played My Blue Heaven...
...things off his manly chest. Before a healthy audience of some 2,000, he flailed clerical prudery, plumped for the healthy life and for good clean sex ("The sexes were never made to be separated.") and explained Cosmotarianism, "the Religion of Happiness." The white-maned publisher, clad in suit and shoes to match, did push-ups and headstands (calculated to prolong life from ten to 25 years), warned women: "Beauty must be associated with a good digestion...