Word: frocked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then the door to the left opened to admit the representatives of the faculty. Deans, department heads, and professors-emeritus followed in long array, each man in cap and gown, wearing the scarf of colored silk which betokened his degree. To the somber black of frock coats and black gowns was added the flash of scarlet, blue, and orange as this group of distinguished scholars and educators took their seats upon President Eliot's left...
...Before Premier Baldwin had left the Palace, Mr. Macdonald had arrived, accompanied by J. R. Clynes and J. H. Thomas?a trio of moderate and responsible Laborites. Mr. Macdonald wore a frock-coat and a silk hat, Mr. Clynes was distinguished by a soft cap, Mr. Thomas remained inseparable from his aged and worn derby. The King received Mr. Macdonald in an audience lasting more than an hour, during which he charged him to form a Cabinet. When Mr. Macdonald came out of the Palace he was met by hundreds of cheering partisans...
With that, Sir John, who had discarded his kingly robes for a more conventional frock coat, slipped on an overcoat of large black and white checks, pulled a cloth cap down over his eyes, and walked towards the stage entrance...
...Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print, has done a most appealing portrait of the graceful maiden lady in her gown of heavy yellow silk, poke bonnet, black mitts, lace shawl...
...White House." "Cal first went to school in the little red schoolhouse." "He early became an adept in divorcing the lowing herd which winds slowly o'er the lea from the raw material which makes for butter and cheese." "He is as much himself at work in smock-frock and boots as the sometimes effete children of Beacon Street, when they loll in dinner jackets, or decollate and lapis lazuli." "Cal he was, Cal he is." "Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread...