Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildest shoot currently burgeoning from the royal family tree, accident-prone Edward, Duke of Kent, 20, seventh in line for the throne of England, was afflicted by spring fever on a madcap evening in London aboard a pleasure boat moored in the Thames. When the revelry dulled, two fully clad male wassailers, inspired by ?5 wagers, went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked...
Chipped beef is moving in to replace golden apples in the Lowell House dining hall, sneaker-clad feet are beginning to wend their way toward libraries instead of rehearsals, and the College's Herculean theatre season at last draws to a thumping close. At this point the stage-struck undergraduate, like the Wall Street speculator in 1929 or the Davy Crockett fan in 1955, naturally wonders just how long the boom is going to last. Is theatre activity at Harvard just beginning a long and significant golden age, or have students merely spouted Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams this year...
Spoiled Sport. In Baltimore, spotted walking along the street at night clad only in shoes and a string of pearls, Bonita S. Schapiro, 25, was hustled off to the station house with a coat thrown over her, complained moodily to the cops: "Every time I try to have a little fun I get into trouble...
...great Savrola, savior of his country, confronts the "sombre-clad" assassin who has slain the Dictator. The act offends his nobility. "Vile scum!" Savrola cries, and he slashes the culprit across the face with his stick...
...hardy, denim-clad fishermen of He de Sein (pop. 1,328), six storm-swept miles off France's Brittany coast, regard both doctors and tax collectors as meddlesome nuisances. For three hard-lived centuries the Senans have paid no taxes; between last November and February they sent five doctors packing, each with his faith badly shaken in both humanity and the Hippocratic oath. Restless Paris Doctor Jean l'Haridon, 35, wartime resistance fighter and onetime Boy Scout, hoped to avoid the fate of his immediate predecessors; he saw He de Sein as a new world to conquer. When...