Word: garb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choir stepped into the window and caroled Gregorian chants, their shrill-sweet descant relayed by amplifier to the street outside. The Franklin Simon window attracted almost too much attention. Army authorities straightway protested against this unseemly display of the uniform, and Franklin Simon had to substitute a vaguely military garb. The New York Police Department served the store with a summons for broadcasting without a permit. After three days of it, Franklin Simon decided to call the whole thing...
...Historian John C. Fitzpatrick, by whom, says Knollenberg testily, "their work has been largely undone." So exasperated does Historian Knollenberg become in undoing this undoing that he accuses Historian Fitzpatrick of taking literally a remark of Washington Irving's: "There is a certain meddlesome spirit which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care should be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious erudition...
...hope that this attitude is the result of propaganda or of one sided teaching and is not evidence of a softness of the younger generation that makes it unable to be moved by considerations other than its immediate comfort and pleasure. The representation of President Conant, in the garb of the Pilgrims, as wildly and thoughtlessly brandishing a gun, is an insult to the President of Harvard, who undoubtedly thought long and earnestly before stating that he believed the United States should go to war. It is also an insult to the Pilgrims, who went through no end of hardship...
...reassuring phrase Mexican Catholics had heard in a generation, for it foretold an end to an era of tribulation. Already Catholics have openly begun to rebuild ruined churches. Soon to take place at Campeche is a Eucharistic Congress, including outside processions (although priests are legally forbidden to wear clerical garb in public)-things which have not been allowed in Mexico for 30 years...
...matter of general knowledge that the Socialist Party has opposed any steps toward American involvement in foreign war. This position has been held to consistently since the formation of the 'Party. The Socialist Party has stood against the dangerous "collective security" system (which in its present day garb of aid to the 'British defenders of democracy' threatens to plunge us into war) since its inception, not as in the case of the Communist Party only since Russia abandoned the system fourteen months...