Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Edward of Wales visited a coal mine in Lancashire, donned miner's garb, descended 400 feet, pecked at coal strata with a pneumatic drill, emerged dirty-faced...
...Extraordinary program. Lady athlete, with exclusive figure beauty in nature's garb. Wrestling?men, women and mixed. Various chansonnettes. Horse training in the open. Magic conjuror fakir of ancient times...
Although it is more than likely that when these gilded words meet the weary eyes of the rising scholar, the clock will be safely past the witching hour of nine, still it is deemed advisable by those powers which each day lay out monsieur's mental garb that he should today make serious effort to reach Harvard 1 by seven minutes after the hour mentioned to hear Professor Gay discourse on "A Survey of Railroad History in the United States Since 1880." Here is a topic of no mean attractiveness; there is romance enough about the growth of the railroads...
...guests will make merry in Memorial Hall, for the twenty-second annual Junior Dance. Finishing touches are being applied to the hall and box decorations, but by the first dance this evening all will be in perfect order, and Memorial Hall will once more have donned its festive garb...
...Copey" within their first week at Harvard, if not long before, but they may pass him many times in the street before knowing him by sight. There is nothing to notice about a little fellow of 66, as small, indeed, as the smallest freshmen, in traditional oldtime professorial garb--old brown overcoat, brown suit, felt hat far down over generous ears. But on a Monday evening, as soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Burges Johnson (late...