Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House of Commons." Society patrons responded with a hoarse cheer so blatant that Marlene, entering in a bit of gossamer so diaphanous that Britain's press fears to publish photos of it, was scarcely noticed. Later, Battling Bessie and Marlene chatted cozily. With no apologies for her proletarian garb, Bessie said: "I just had time to wash my face...
...really not doing too badly." Outside, a brown-cowled Franciscan hurrying along the plaza bore out the Archbishop's point, for this was Mexico City, capital of a country whose 38-year-old constitution 1) forbids monastic orders, and through a statute also bans any kind of religious garb in public; 2) declares all churches, rectories and convents government property, and 3) gives state legislatures the power to determine the number of clergymen permitted to each creed. But Mexico's laws against religion are getting to be dead-letter...
...copy of TIME, April 11, that arrived in my study, containing an article on the Maryknoll Sisters, along with four pages of pictures captioned "Religious Garb, Uniforms of the Church in the U.S.," I cannot let go unchallenged . . . The Roman Catholic Church is but one of the many churches in the United States, and, as a matter of fact, there are 15 Orders of Sisters in the Episcopal Church, Orders of Deaconesses with definite garbs in the Lutheran Church, and, I believe, there are a few orders of sisterhood in the Russian and Greek Churches in America. I am anti...
Said a West Coast clothier: "We're on the verge of the greatest revolution the men's clothing industry has ever felt." Revolution was not quite the word, since man's basic garb will still be a pair of pants and a coat. But change there is-a major change unthought of as little as five years...
...underground association distributed pamphlets urging Catholics to display their loyalty to the faith by wearing badges of Roman Catholic organizations and bowing to priests "proudly and ostentatiously." In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, gangs of Roman Catholic youths beat up several bogus priests-apparently government agents in clerical garb-who were roaming the streets creating disturbances and yelling insults at women...