Word: garb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ENTIRE garb WILL consist in A LOOSE double-breasted COAT and the nice COOL LONG trow MENTIONED somewhere in THE wilderness above...
Nevertheless the storms of ridicule may be braved more sanguinely because of the subject--and that is that the Yard at this season of the year is magnificent. It is always impressive; in its autumnal garb it is even more so. Last spring when one half of the Yard was in the throes of an abdominal operation the scene was still sufficiently vernal and sufficiently inspirational to warrant odes and lyrics. And now, when there is nothing more disturbing than the sight of John Harvard in the hands of his tailor the sight is worthy not of mere editorials...
...pulse of a city can divine what Boston is thinking about the reports from overseas, full as they are of the names of Isadora Duncan. It was in Boston that she reached the height of her sensationalism, when she danced across the boards of Symphony Hall in a garb flaming and diaphanous. The not inconsiderable Socialist population of Gotham could never learn of he deportation in face of the God's-in-his-heaven, all's-right-with-the-world air with which the Boston press pounced upon the news. This blatant person had been delivered to the mercies...
...David Belasco, theatrical producer, affects the priestly collar and garb. He was born a Jew; was educated by a Catholic priest; belongs to the Jewish Theatrical Guild, the Central Synagogue (Manhattan), and the Episcopal Actors Guild...
Later, as Host Bottomley's spirits kindled, he announced other projects: 1) a lecture tour during which he would wear only prison garb and would denounce British prison methods "from every platform in the land"; 2) the founding of a newspaper, "for which my backers have ready £100,000, gentlemen." 3) publication (which subsequently took place last week in the London Dispatch) of an entire front-page story of his wrongs, plus an entire back page of pictures showing him plump before he went to jail and cadaverous today...