Word: clad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mother made Otto be good. He says he has never been in a nightclub. He certainly would never behave like his wild Archducal cousins, one of whom kept the terrified occupants of an entire hotel shut in their rooms one night as he roared up and down the corridors clad only in a sabre belt and sabre...
...years to come, when suffering in mind and body from the evil nature of man, the ingratitude of princes, and the frowns of Providence, Columbus may have sought consolation in the memory of those bright November days of 1493, the fleet gaily coasting along the lofty verdure-clad Antilles with trade-wind clouds piling up over their summits and rainbows bridging their deep-cleft valleys; of the nights when he lay quietly at anchor in the lee of the land with his gallant fleet all about, stars of incredible brightness overhead, and hearty voices joining in the evening hymn...
...News, refused to be downcast, summed up a lot of Southern feeling: "No form of weather is more fascinating than a heavy snowstorm," he wrote. "To be moving about in the open when the great fat flakes are falling is something to delight the soul. ... A beautiful woman snugly clad on a snowy day is a delight to tired eyes-more attractive by far than any nymph in a bathing suit. The wind whips color into her cheeks and tingling air lends sparkling brilliance to her eyes...
...laughed as the rain soaked his second inaugural manuscript, said: ". . . The greatest change we have witnessed has been the change in the moral climate of America." But his voice rang as he spoke his grim vision of the present: "I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished...
...memories motivate many a Pippin canvas. One shows shell holes in the Champagne sector, bursting from the ground like monster morning glories. Another, End of the War-Starting Home, has grey-clad Germans holding up their hands in surrender, "because they had to quit before we could go home." Other ideas come to him from magazines, books, out of his head. A dozen people have bought his canvases, from Chester County socialites to Cinemactor Charles Laughton, who bought his Cabin in the Cotton...