Word: garbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some in the black and grey garb of the City represented British banks and insurance companies. Others, in tweeds, represented only themselves. Outwardly, as they trooped up the white steps of Beaver House on London's Garlick Hill one day last month, they were typical Britons. But they were Britons with a difference. These were "the Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay," come together for the 278th general court (annual meeting...
...Shadow of eternity, where they have rested for some 300 years, some strange figures were exposed to 20th Century stares in the Mexican village of Tepepan last week. Workmen, removing the floor of an ancient church, disclosed 20 bodies, most of them dressed in priestly garb or nun's habit. All were mummified and remarkably preserved. But nobody was quite sure how they came to be there or what to do with them next...
...entirely devoted to artistic burlesque--the fig-leaf garb was abandoned in favor of a more inclusive costume when University Hall read the dispatches--HDC spends its more normal moments as a laboratory of experimental theater. Its purpose is primarily education of its members, and for this reason most of its plays are first performances of obscure works...
Flags fluttered from every eminence of Ankara's massive, marmoreal railroad station. Guards of honor lined the platforms as Turkey's President Ismet Inonii, in morning coat and striped trousers, stepped forward to greet a king, resplendent in his native garb...
...self-portraits which now & then appeared in Delvaux's canvases looked even more out of place than the nudes; they exhibited the frozen face and faintly old-fashioned garb of a latter-day Buster Keaton, stalking gloomily amidst his dream harem or lifting his hat to a bare-backed girl friend, as in The Meeting...