Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rather plain Venus in a gown, bending to teach her little boy how to nock an arrow. The playfulness of the piece in no way modifies its classic harmony...
With pipes and drums, 5,000 Berber tribesmen, camped below the palace in the Moroccan city of Rabat, greeted the appearance of a wizened old man in a white gown whom the French a year ago made Sultan of Morocco. Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Moulay Arafa was nervous. The last two times he had shown his face in public, he had narrowly escaped assassination by fanatic nationalist supporters of his exiled predecessor, Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef...
...Bonaparte strode into his writing room and assaulted his correspondence. He answered immediately a few important letters, laid others aside for further consideration, hurled the remainder on the floor. At 4 a.m. he summoned his secretary, who found the great man impatiently striding the floor in a white dressing gown, a handkerchief bound round his head...
...warmly at the cheering crowd as her coach rolled up to Buckingham Palace, where Britain's royalty wined and dined Sweden's King Gustav VI and Queen Louise, who were making the first state visit of Swedish monarchs to England in 46 years. On her white tulle gown Margaret wore a miniature portrait of another handsome lady, her sister Queen Elizabeth...
...find someone who not only played her parts one after another, but several at once . . . Yet . . . has anyone . . . seen her in the character of academic woman? It is surely time that she added 'fabulae togatae' to her repertoire; so let us clothe her in our scarlet gown...