Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Park Avenue debs, Long Island's polo crowd. Encouraged by his customers, Joe began to write weekly essays-hard-earned wisdom couched in his own lingo. He had his pieces punctuated by a race-track handicapper with a high-school education, mailed them to his clientele. In ivy-clad Eastern dormitories, Madden's essays had a wider circulation than those of Lamb, Addison or Steele. Today Joe Madden sends his weekly bulletins to 3,000 customers, a select fraternity he fondly calls "the mob." He has published three books: What'll You Have, Boys?; The Back Room...
...returning to the U. S. wrote: "Moscow was very much as it used to be. I smelled that the moment our plane had wheeled into the spacious airport. . . . The whole country has a distinct, fetid odor of its own. . . . People looked better fed than a few years ago, better clad (especially with regard to overcoats and footwear), and they seem to be a little better housed too. There were fewer queues outside the food stores, shops and warehouses appeared better stocked than in 1932, and street begging had considerably decreased. However, people in rags, with indescribably dirty hands and faces...
...Painter Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik-bearded, Kaiser-helmeted Nazi labeled Absolutism horsewhipped a half-clad damsel named Humanity, while the sausagelike corpses of Liberty and Justice lay strewn behind them across the map of Europe. Circumspect White Committee officials, who feared Painter Owen's horror scenes might affect stomachs rather than sympathies, hung them inconspicuously, hoped nobody would pay much attention to them...
Billy Rose made good on his offer of providing scantily clad girls to test Harvard students for Professor Sorokin's Genius Test; but official Harvard conservation turned thumbs down yesterday...
...reply to a request from the Committee of the Freshman Christmas Dance, Rose offered to "send up six beautiful girls who will sit there scantily clad for seventy-two hours, if you can match this with six bona-fide Harvard students prepared to resist these temptations...