Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kelly, who contumeliously declared he would never swear allegiance "to a foreign Queen," was, therefor, as reported in your Dec. 14 story, convicted of "sedition" and given choice of binding himself "to be of good behavior" (be a nice, polite Briton) or go, a felon in felon's garb, to a convict prison. From the dock defiant, and vowing he would never accept the ignominious convict's garment wherewith Britain has always insisted on humiliating Irish political prisoners, "cantankerous Kelly chose jail...
...Last week, in a North Irish court, he was found guilty of sedition, and given the alternative of posting a $280 bond for five years' good behavior or going to jail for a year. Cantankerous Kelly chose jail. But, said he, "I will never submit to wearing prison garb. You may hold me, but you will hold me naked...
Quite aware of the potential of the locale and its personalities, Swanson has chosen a piece of ironical whimsey for his script. A wiry youth with the agility of a Douglas Fairbanks and the garb of a Broadway bopster steals a 40 pound donation from the coffers of the local church. After a Keystone cops chase he hides the money under a pumpkin soon to be found by a woman who needs cash urgently to feed her hungry children. When the thief shrewdly steals the money back, the whole village of Alexandra pursues him until he seeks out a plausible...
Among the supporting cast, Oscar Homolko is wonderfully ingratiating as the Community loss who brings Potts to Moscow. The most that can be said for Nadia Gray is that she manages to look well even in the grim garb of the Kremlin...
...North End would descend once a year upon the Square to crown Columbus with a wreath. Not to be out-done, the M.I.T. students, who had a club house at 6 Louisburg Square, trussed Aristides up in a cup and gown. The Association took a dim view of Aristides' garb. Now the green is fenced and only residents have keys to the gates...