Word: clad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mule races in New Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...
...some visiting oversees the appearance of a boys' school must be preserved; for the girls' visiting parents, the appearance of a girls' school. The visiting parents see pajama-clad little girls snoozing peacefully. When they close the door, pajama-clad little boys spring into the beds for the benefit of the approaching overseers, preceded, of course, by little girls springing out of bed. The beautiful soprano voices of the choir drop into a rearing bass at the appropriate time. Appearances are dropped in a climatic melee featuring the girls' lacrosse team against the courageous rugger team...
...first rescue teams to fly through the clouds of volcanic ash to an airstrip near Lamington last week reported at least 50 square miles of formerly jungle-clad hills now a grey-brown desert of pumice dust caking into stone. Said one rescuer: "It was like being on another planet...The haze of steam and smoke issuing from Lamington made the whole thing a nightmare." Said Australian Government Official Claude Champion: "Native bodies were everywhere. Dead natives were hanging in the stripped branches of every tree, and many were caught in the forks of the trees. Apparently they died there...
...confined. There, an outbreak of 130 polio cases led President Arnulfo Arias to call off all public assemblies. But in Trinidad, the calypso tents have been billowing for weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon...
...this ballet the ensemble alone is important, and it is wonderfully eloquent. A tangle of arms and legs, writhing sensuously, and the crucifixion of a white-clad figure in a pool of light epitomize the existence of the Children of Darkness and the Children of Light. Sophie Fedrovitch's decor and costumes are, above all, strikingly simple in design, admirably in keeping with the ballet. This simplicity, the pro-found moral and artistic purpose of Frederick Ashton's choreography, and the trained ability and conviction of the dancers, make "Dante Sonata" an impressively meaningful experience. "Dante Sonata" represents the Salder...