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...Avenue Presbyterian Church, the boys of the congregation would escape from their parents, if they could, and play as boisterously as was possible on a Presbyterian Sunday in the 1880s. But one of them had his own kind of Sunday game. Over a set of kitchen steps he would drape one of his mother's shawls. Then he would mount his make-believe pulpit and preach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Heart First | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

...handle would slip out of his fingers. And it is not even resting on his shoulder. And can't you almost hear him groaning under his burden? Just try to carry a load and see what happens to the other arm. It just doesn't drape gracefully at your side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 11, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

...button drape from the Robert Hall racks...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: The Graduate's Plight | 4/15/1953 | See Source »

...Smithsonian Institution acknowledged receipt of a grey satin and silver lame evening gown worn by Bess Truman at the 1949 inaugural reception. The Smithsonian will drape the gown over a plaster cast form and add it next year to the collection of twelve inaugural dresses worn by earlier First Ladies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 6, 1952 | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

JULY-Double Standard. At Fort Devens, Mass., Donald Potter began Army paratrooper training after the Navy rejected him because he would neither remove his nude tattoo nor drape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1951 | 12/31/1951 | See Source »

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