Word: garb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classes the other day. They were probably ex-quiz kids. They couldn't have been trying to keep cool for one were a coat, stiff collar and bow tie. We hesitated to question them on this oddity for they seemed so confident, even in this garb. Nevertheless, we feel sure that they will become of age to wear knickerbockers by next fall...
There has been no official indication so far whether the House towers are to be lighted again. If they are to be on, it will be the first time since August of 1942 that the Houses have displayed their traditional night-time garb...
Died. Ignatius Timothy Trebitsch-Lincoln, 64, charlatan extraordinary to the 20th Century; reportedly after an intestinal operation; in Shanghai. Born a Hungarian Jew, he soon became a Lutheran, left London as a Presbyterian missionary to Canada, reappeared as an Anglican curate in Kent. Then he dropped his clerical garb, called himself Lincoln, in 1910 was elected M.P. with the help of B. Seebohm Rowntree, a credulous cocoa king for whom Lincoln had turned Quaker. During World War I he became a British mail censor, was jailed after boasting how he had outsmarted Britain as a spy. Released an Anglophobe...
Last week, dressed in his Gaucho garb, with his trusty maté pot strapped under the belly of his trusty horse Bolivar, Marcelino again set forth from Buenos Aires, with a string of eight horses and one bell mare. From Recife in Brazil Marcelino planned to ship over to Lisbon, thence to ride through Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Moscow's Red Square. He would leave a good Argentine horse with the Chief of State of each nation he passed through, saving the bell mare for Prime Minister Churchill on his way back...
...Olsen has been directing the personnel work. Sgt. William M. Chesebrough, message center chief, has been boosting everybody's spirits by giving snappy service with mail and messages. Supply Sgt. Carmen J. Riccelli has learned every man's name and has replaced many a torn and tattered garment with garb more suited to students at Harvard. Tech. 4 Robert W. Leonard, Cpl. Roger H. Potter, Tech. 5 George G. Vaughan, Pfe. Harold E. Bloomberg, Tech. 5 A. A. Dickson, and Pvt. John O. Scheuermann are others who have kept the ball rolling smoothly since the students arrived...