Word: garbed
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...three days of national holiday, Egypt celebrated. Special coins had been struck showing a girl, in the garb of ancient Egypt, breaking her chains. Huge banners proclaimed "Evacuation is the Beginning of Reconstruction." Streets were bright with arches, flowers, strings of light and a huge plywood figure of a fedayeen commando loomed high over the sidewalks. Loudspeakers blared patriotic music to the" milling crowds in the Cairo streets, and at night fireworks arched high over the dark Nile...
Addressing a pack of peace-loving fellow travelers, Britain's white-maned Dr. Hewlett Johnson, 82, the Red Dean of Canterbury, tartly reported that he was "shocked" recently to be accosted in London by a prostitute. Said he, in view of his age and clerical garb: "I didn't approve of the girl's taste." Moral of his story: "Such a thing would never happen in the Soviet Union...
...American labor chief by A.F.L. Founder-President Sam Gompers, Woll was blocked by U.M.W. Boss John L. Lewis, who railroaded William Green into the slot left by Gompers' death in 1924. Matt Woll stayed on, a hard and able worker, and a visual standout in his natty garb-he favored striped pants, a gates-ajar collar...
Newsmen who serve the biggest specialized press in the U.S. gathered in Dallas last week, and most of them turned out in an odd journalistic garb: black suits, black hats, clerical collars. Some 350 of them came from 48 states for the annual convention of the Catholic Press Association, a vast, closely knit (yet loosely governed) publishing empire with a total magazine and newspaper circulation of almost 24 million. Today, as Bishop Robert J. Dwyer of Reno told the delegates, the Catholic press is "reaching more people and exerting a greater influence over American thought than at any time...
Catherine's Church, Barlach sculpted The Crippled Beggar, face raised as he rests on crutches, feet barely touching the ground, in a gesture that echoes back to the works of Brueghel. Singing Man shows Barlach at his most joyous. The figure, despite the ecclesiastical appearance of his garb, could as well be yodeling as singing God's praise...