Word: doublet
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...which was one of the most important objects in the amazing house he built on Fifth Avenue. Senator Clark's Joan is now in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington. As children Bernard and his brother Roger, now a writer, posed for that panel for hours in doublet & hose.* One of their most vivid childish recollections is the old copper tycoon's glittering gold teeth. As an artist, Bernard Boutet de Monvel absorbed everything but his father's sly sense of humor. Fifty years old. almost theatrically handsome, his life sounds like the day dreams...
...generous gift of $50,000 from Miss Catherine Bruce of New York City, a 24-inch Doublet was ordered by Professor Pickering from Alvan Clarke and Sons, and was sent to the southern station at Arequipa, Peru, elevation 8000 feet. Although this unprecedented size for a doublet was strongly criticized in those days, the glass has been effective and is responsible for 16,000 negatives in the Harvard collection, most of them 14 by 17 inches in size...
...grandeur was more than made up by pomp displayed by the Supreme Pontiff. At the technical frontier of the minuscule Vatican State the eight motor cars stopped. There, brilliant in the warm December sunshine stood Commendatore Serafini, Governor of Vatican City; Prince Massimo, Papal Postmaster General, gorgeous in hose, doublet and a stiff medieval ruff, with a red-plumed morion on his head; and Commendatore de Mandato, general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted...
...Africa, the second of the three new mountings for telescopes at Harvard's new southern-hemisphere station on the Modder River in the Orange Free State. The mounting just completed is a fine specimen of the telescope maker's art. It is provided for the 24-inch Bruce photographic doublet which for thirty years has been in operation, with a rather inferior mounting, at the former Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. The 24-inch Bruce has long been the Observatory's most powerful tool for studying southern stars and nebulae, and with its new modern mounting it will continue...
Court tennis is one of the most complicated games in the world. It has changed very little since two kings imprisoned in a palace courtyard invented it and other kings in other courtyards played it in hose and doublet. In the gallery of the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York is a king's throne copied from one the Bourbons used to sit on to watch their sons and relatives...