Word: garbs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Following the exhibition in accurate landing will come the last event, an alertness contest, involving speed trials in starting the planes and getting them off the ground. This race will start with the pilots in their tents. They will don their flying garb, run to their planes, start them, make a short flight, and return to their stations...
...very different guise from his autumnal aspect the Tiger Invades Cambridge tonight, yet rather than invasion it is peaceful penetration. Instead of the warlike garb of the gridiron, he enters the scene in fantastic dress or undress; instead of arraying himself in nose-guard and headgear, he screens his face behind the mask of Thespis; instead of cleated boots, he wears the sock and buskin...
...wildest demonstrations to express their disapproval of this sacrilege against tradition. Two hundred undergraduates, attired in ancient Greek costumes and carrying rose bowls, in imitation of Greek, vases, paraded through the ton despite the cold weather. In the midst of the procession marched a student in the garb of a Greek priest, carrying an urn of red hot ashes, as an emblem of cremation. At the head of the procession was borne a long streamer of white and blue, the Greek national colors...