Word: garb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heflin, who had the resolution in charge. Senator Heflin has a fine political figure, almost comparable to that of Chief Justice Taft. Mr. Heflin moreover decks his eloquent proportions in a great cutaway coat with a light vest of cream or buff color. In hotter weather he varies his garb by wearing a light colored Palm Beach suit of ample proportions. He has a ruddy face, which he adorns with eyeglasses that dangle by a black cord. His manner is suave and expansive. His voice, when it breaks into portentous periods, is solemn and his words are chosen from...
...from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from a bullock's horn. Garnett had a basket of manuscript and Ford assisted in selecting for publication Almayer's Folly by Joseph Conrad. Joseph Conrad, A Personal Remembrance and Some Do Not are his most recent books. At 16 he successfully published Brown Owl, illustrated...
Mise en Scene. When they emerged, the King had exchanged his military garb for robes of state, "the ermine, the purple, and the crown." The Queen of course wore her imposing State Crown, topped by a blazing Maltese Cross of diamonds. A diamond stomacher twinkled on the jet black gown which she had donned in mourning for Queen Alexandra. Close beside the throne stood the Marquis of Salisbury, holding the great Sword of State. Since the Prince of Wales was unable to appear on account of his fractured collar bone (TIME, Feb. 8), his brother, the Duke of York, took...
...either the pan-Italians or the pan-Germans. Before the War 'our country,' rising mountainously on both sides of the higher reaches of the river Adige, was one of the most nearly autonomous regions in the Austrian Empire. The aged Emperor Franz Josef knew how to don our peasant garb and come among us, amiably pretending to be a Tyrolese and speaking our peculiar dialect, just as he used to perform this same gracious gesture among all of his subject peoples. The Habsburgs left us more or less to ourselves; now the Allies have turned us over to the house...
...character of Feng is usually considered exemplary in the extreme, considering the marked proclivity of most Chinese chieftains for dissolute living. He is a total abstainer, a nonsmoker, and a vigorous combatant of loose sexual living among his troops. In his attire, "he affects the simplest and most austere garb." And it has often been reported that "he labors manually with his soldiers for a time every...