Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lower hem if he cared to have them. A Roman Catholic bishop wears an alb, as does, too, the medieval priest of the Eastern Catholic Church. The latter's alb has alternate red and white stripes to signify the blood and bonds of Christ. Chasuble. This (Anglican Church) garb is a heavily embroidered circular garment, sleeveless and to be slipped over the head, made of moiré silk preferably. Over the shoulders and down the spine, spreads a magnificent cross in the shape of the Greek letter ψ. This garment is quite the same in the Roman and Eastern...
...think I am-President Coolidge?" This was Vice President Dawes' way of informing Chicago camera men that he did not wish to be photographed in fishing garb before leaving for Colorado. Said Mr. Dawes: "If President Coolidge wants to pose for fishing pictures, all right, but I won't." At White Pine Camp the President has not been photographed in actual piscatorial encounter, but his merest fishing experience has been nationally recounted. Mr. Dawes intends to capture trout in the Rocky Mountain streams, unseen, unpublished. Four years come and go, and again sweltering delegates in some hot metropolis...
Twenty-two years ago, two souls felt the lure of the Gobi Desert. The girl went as missionary; the man as explorer of the mysteries of Mongolia. The girl heard of the man and came unto his camp in the garb of a male. Her sex was discovered; love kindled. A Belgian missionary married them; two years they wandered honeymooning, unseen by white man. They returned to France and the fickle adventurer abandoned his desert mate and their little daughter, Pauline...
...introduction of the helmet, shoulder pad, and other protective garb, has made it possible for the players to take more chances than was possible when they went upon the field with their heads and bodies unprotected from the onslaught of swinging lacrosse sticks. In addition, the exact rules which now define body checking have brought about more daring play. The check in lacrosse is equivalent to the tackle in football, save that it differs in technique. Yet it is no less spectacular, and puts into lacrosse the same smash of physical contact so enjoyed by the spectators...
...Wurlitzer accompanies them with most sombre effect. In the final chapter, we have the same music, the same words, but with true DeMillian touch, the characters have changed. The prince, in his emaculate uniform, the princess, in her satin slippers and glittering evening gown, and others in like garb, have replaced the ragged horde that formerly stumbled along the narrow tow-path...