Word: garb
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bernarr Macfadden, blatant apostle of "Health." "There he stands, almost in the garb with which nature clad him, a majestic figure with lungs inflated, pompadour defying the world. His skin . . . is full of strength. . . . He has taken what should be a beautiful search for health, for vigor and for strength, and made of it an ugly and discouraging thing to every right-minded individual...
...Angeles. Down to the ringside of a fine new boxing stadium strutted a gentleman in a tuxedo. There were other gentlemen present in similar garb for this was a night to which reporters would doubtless affix, in their matutinal commentaries, the adjective "gala." The Olympic Stadium, on which $1,000,000 had just been spent, was about to be opened by scuffles between Salvadore and Jessick, lightweights, and Brown and Grandetta, bantams. "Cold Ice Cream, a Spoon in Every Package," cried vendors; candy was offered, soda-pop-the crowd ignored these amenities the better to stare at the tuxedoed gentleman...
Veiled Prophets of the Enchanted Realms, draped in gauze, paraded the streets of Atlantic City, while thousands of the city's jovial sunburned holiday makers peered at their curious garb; at Grand Monarch A. F. Ittner of St. Louis, who strutted in front, at his personal aid, the Cannibal King,* at the Ram of Kamram†; at the flowing robed Islams of the Hindoo Goosh Grotto of Hamilton, Ontario; at the regal representatives of the 46 other grottos. The Prophets drank orange nip on the million dollar pier; listened to concerts, speeches. From Washington came an airplane, bearing...
...Indiana House of Representatives passed, 67 to 22, a bill to prohibit the wearing of a "distinctive religious garb" by public school teachers. It is aimed at driving nuns out of public schools. It had been previously defeated in the Senate...
Valdosta is a genial town. Its citizens are trig of garb, slow of speech; they have prosperity; more, they have a hero, Woodrow Wilson, late President of the U.S. They remember him in Valdosta. On a spring day, the triggest, the most prosperous of the citizens of Valdosta, those gentlemen who compose the Chamber of Commerce, met totgether, issued, presently a manifesto. They called upon their fellow citizens for funds to establish an institution of higher learning for man?a college which should be a memorial to President Wilson. "That would be a worthy thing for us to do," said...