Word: gowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of Ike's staff was sleeping, but Ike heard a clamor outside his car, ducked out in his bathrobe to greet some 50 railroad workers, women and youngsters. They called for Mamie, and in a moment she popped out in pink pajamas and dressing gown with a ribbon around her hair. Shouted a male voice: "Boy, Mamie sho' does look good, even in the mawnin...
...ground again & again, Bishop Ford did his best to walk calmly through the streets till the guards returned. In another town his neck was bound with a wet rope which almost choked him as it dried and shrank. Another rope was made to trail from under his gown like a tail. To humiliate them both, the Reds once forced him to undress before Sister Joan Marie. She caught a glimpse of Bishop Ford for the last time in February of this year, the month the Reds now say he died. His once dark hair was completely white, his body...
History's mantle sat lightly last week on the shoulders of the cheery-cheeked Frenchman as he sat breakfasting in the garden in his dressing gown, eating honey and yoghurt. Six nations this week crowned him a civilian Mr. Europe. They made him first president of the High Authority of the European Coal and Steel Community (Schuman Plan). The Schuman Plan is rightly named for Foreign Minister Schuman, who alone among Frenchmen had the moral authority to propose it successfully to Europe (TIME, March 1, 1948). But it was Jean Monnet who conceived the plan and did the behind...
...instead of one of the 16th century master's sly, dreamy-looking women, the canvas showed a mysterious black-cloaked, black-hooded figure. The countess got to work, and sure enough, under the black was a typical Cranach painting of a handsome girl garbed in a low-cut gown...
Although a few Red-led hecklers hung about the town to shout "Go home, Acheson," Oxonians appeared hospitably disposed toward Secretary of State Dean Acheson, who, elegant in cap & gown, entered Oxford's Sheldonian Theater in a procession led by an old acquaintance, University Chancellor Lord Halifax, and got an honorary degree, Doctor of Civil...