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Word: garbed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opera costumes that brought the soprano to New York in 1926 at the head of an army of enthusiastic supporters. Suspicions of this nature are strengthened when one recalls that in the statement to the press there is no promise not to appear before the hungry chickens in the garb of Juliet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "IT IS DESTINY" | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

Individualism:"There are various kinds and degrees of individuality in dress. The term may be applied where a man selects a style of costume which has long since gone out of fashion. It may be used where another cultivates the grotesque in garb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Royal Fashion v. Royal Style | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: First President | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...Deutsch, president of both the Sonora and Acoustics Products companies and promoter of Religious Film Trust, last week promised: "With the exception of the leading characters, native hordes and tribes will be employed and will wear their native garb, which has undergone no change in thousands of years." He was in error. Although Arabians still wear no underwear under their burnooses, they now wear socks and Boston garters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bible Films | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...jaunty but therapeutically casual days of the 17th century two men often sat late over their wine cups. The one was dressed in silks and at his side a slim sword swung. The other's garb was black, but his eyes gleamed in candlelight. Sword-swinger was England's Charles I; the eyes gleamed in the head of Dr. William Harvey, no ordinary leech. Last week 100 chosen doctors from the world over gathered in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the royal leech's book* which first told the world that blood completes a circle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blood | 5/28/1928 | See Source »

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