Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans will have bought $12 million worth of tickets to the nation's 29 tent theaters. Few of the big-top producers will do better than a sometime carnival fire-eater named St. John (rhymes with Injun) Terrell, 42, who celebrates Christmas by donning colonial garb and boating the Delaware in memory of George Washington's 1776 Trenton victory. A mere Mike Toddler among impresarios when he first hoisted his Lambertville tent in 1949, Terrell now owns or has a hand in four more (at Brandywine, Pa., Neptune, N.J., Rosecroft, Md., Rye, N.Y.), and clearly ranks...
...igloos from Aklavik to Frobisher Bay: an account by Idlout, an Eskimo from Resolute Bay, of a visit to Greenland (he was charmed by the girls); a section on Eskimo haute couture (which made the telling point that the Eskimo will freeze in the white man's garb); even two blank pages -"something to write on" - for readers who live in an area where paper is a rare and treasured commodity...
Lowering their faces under their flaring headdresses, the nuns browsing among the pious tracts in the little store silently shook their heads when Shopkeeper Armand Bertele offered to help them. The figures in nun's garb had reason for silence: they were in reality male counter-intelligence agents of France's formidable Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire, and they were more interested in baldish, Austrian-born Armand Bertele's comings and goings than in commentaries and chaplets...
...Route Back. For his poetry readings Brother Antoninus takes off his white tunic, black scapular and hood, to dress his 6-ft. 4-in. frame in clerical street garb-a plain black suit, black tie. Says he: "Society has two structures, the institutional and the visionary. There has to be a synthesis. I feel that I have found that religion in which the institutional and the visionary are reconcilable . . . The beat have repudiated the institutional. They have no route back theologically...
...lanky Southerner in casual garb attracted a small crowd. "Just passing through town. Heard about this Protest Hootenanny." A few minutes later he grabbed the spotlight...