Word: garment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Strong of Will: When you see a long figure apparently made of India rubber, and possessed of slightly Katherine Hepburnish tendencies loping easily down the corridor, then you know that the great Pooh Bah of Winsor has passed by . . .Hor favorite garment: an undershirt: probable future occupation: mother...
First scenes were acted at Murchison Falls, 150 mi. up the Nile from Victoria Nyanza. Miss Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
Iraq- "Squat and thickset, with head disproportionately large, the woman stands holding her hands before her breast. She wears the traditional garment of sheepskin and her hair, gathered in a heavy roll, is confined by a fillet of lapis lazuli inlay. The eyes are of shell and lapis lazuli and the eyebrows are inlaid with bituminous paste." Thus did Dr. Charles Leonard Woolley report one of his latest finds. A popeyed, club-footed little figure of alabaster, 10 in. high, found in a soldier's grave with its head touching the blade of the warrior's bronze...
...miraculous cures, its therapeutic powers were last said to be demonstrated in 1843 when a portion of it sent to the University of Fribourg healed a youth injured in a football game. When its golden reliquary was opened few years later, moths flew out after eating holes in the garment...
...named Judas (later St. Cyriacus) who showed her a ditch containing three crosses. When one of the crosses cured a sick woman, pious Helena sought no further. To Constantinople she sent the cross, three nails and the Holy Tunic now at Argenteuil. To Trier she sent the garment called the Holy Coat...