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...figure of the pastor in the Lutheran ministerial garb behind the medieval wheel of torture, serving near the altar with the chalice, and participating in the service in a Lutheran edifice by singing from a hymnbook with uplifted, blessing arm under the glaring light falling upon him, permits only one interpretation...
...port of Bizerte in Tunisia 50 bearded old Moslem dignitaries, turbaned and in silk robes, presented flowers to M. Daladier. Silk-hatted French officials, in traditional morning garb, gave him European handshakes. The 7,500 British subjects of the protectorate praised French rule in a joint letter to the Premier. The Moslem population of Tunis gave his motorcade a wildly enthusiastic reception...
Salvemini sees a definite cooperation in the policies of Mussolini and the British Prime Minister. "Chamberlain needs to appear to the British electorate under the garb of the angel of peace . . . Mussolini, by raising a row with the French allows Chamberlain to intervene as a peacemaker...
...seen from the exhibits that the new architecture is not merely a new garb for an old framework," Bogner said. "The public is hard to convince that modern architecture is not a stylistic venture, like a new model of an automobile or a fashion show, but is the outgrowth of new demands set on buildings as a result of social changes and the technological developments...
...Europe with Leopold Stokowski, she chatted brightly with reporters, smiled, posed for pictures. Asked whether she was married, she said she would not marry until she found the "right man." Into Jack & Charlie's ("21"), famed Manhattan restaurant, wandered Cinema Director Frank Capra, dressed in conventional Hollywood garb, including a polo shirt open at the throat. The headwaiter, horrified, rushed up to him, murmured apologetically: "Sorry, but you can't sit here like that. You'll have to wear a necktie. I'll have the waiter bring some in from our stock." Huffed, Capra buttoned...