Word: garb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...former U.S. Immigration Commissioner Earl G. Harrison, whom he had sent to the Continent last June to investigate the fate of displaced refugees, particularly Jews. Harrison's report pulled no punches. He charged that displaced Jews are being held in unsanitary, barbed-wire camps, wearing hideous concentration-camp garb or German SS uniforms, with nothing being done for them by way of rehabilitation. Their guards are U.S. troops...
...Archbishop had also made a social stir. Tall (6 ft. 4 in.) and full of dignity, berobed in the black garb and silver chain ofj his churchly office, he cut a figure unique among modern statesmen. He impressed London hostesses by his great appetite for oriental pilaff (his aides cornered the dwindling London rice stocks), his fine Greek cigarets, the quantities of boiling Turkish coffee he consumed. He rode majestically through London's streets in a Rolls-Royce provided by the British Government. Finally, again by air, he had flown off to Paris and a royal Gallic welcome. Then...
...Capitaine. In Manhattan, the FBI suggested that the Monte Carlo night club ought to change the garb of its doorman because the French Government had protested that he was always getting salutes from French soldiers...
...bomb-battered city was not the old Vienna. Wrote Gedye: "It was like walking onto a stage where the scenery of some gay Viennese operetta had been dismantled, the vivid costumes of the artists replaced by the dull garb of the scene-shifters. The curtain has fallen on Vienna's operetta existence, and it will be long before it rises again...
...TIME [Aug. 13] you publish a picture of five women in religious garb and call them "dancing nuns." I am going to correct you. These women are not nuns at all, but members of various religious congregations or institutes, and as such pronounce only simple vows at their religious profession. A nun is a member of a religious order and takes solemn vows. There are other differences, too. But, canonically speaking, a nun and a sister are not the same thing. I have noticed before, and often too, that you have made this same mistake. Perhaps, though, as a stripteaser...