Word: garb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like Haroun al Rashid, Prince Mohamed occasionally doffed his princely garb and mingled with commoners...
...recent rash of sunshine in Beantown has caused such stalwarts as "Iron Phil" Masquelette and "Terrible Ted" Marchese to shed their lining in favor of the garb of a horsehider and to play a little ball. Some of us, you see, are a little more athletic than others. Good weather brought with it a few aches and pains in the form of early morn exercises, courtesy of the athletic department, and dismayed Messrs. Sinberg and Lifschultz of "left side first" notoriety. Combining a fanatical desire and his bull strength, Kevin "the Bull" O'Donnell makes mad tracks daily...
...next day, Harry Hopkins visited Pius XII. The Pope had dressed as he would to receive the head of a state -in a red-velvet, ermined mozetta, more elaborate than his usual garb. Only Myron C. Taylor, the President's personal minister to the Vatican, was with Hopkins and the Pope, and no outsider knew what was said...
...battle zones last week, some U.S. Catholic chaplains offered outdoor Masses in strange garb: khaki vestments tinted by camouflage experts. Altar cloths were also camouflaged. Reason for the change, effected by New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S. Armed Services: the traditional white and brightly colored vestments draw fire from enemy planes...
...Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...