Word: raiment
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...that Spring is rustling through the cloistered scaffolding of the Yard, the Well-Dressed Senior is considering what intellectual raiment he shall wear at the exclusive Divisional Tea. Already the nearly-baked undergraduate is begiuning to feel that he has completed everything in his college course except his education. As one semi-intelligent put it, "I hate to leave this place after four years knowing as little as I do." In his modesty he did not realise that many other members of his class had already departed for this very season...
Social analysis, pages from the history of emotions, both, or neither--Shaw has clothed his thoughts in a raiment of words well-nigh Biblical in their majesty and beauty. With these he mixed current slang in a fashion as masterly as it is dramatic. He smiles, he sneors, he argues, he cries aloud, he speaks with the wisdom of the ages--but always there are the French, the English, and Joan...
Colorful ranch scene, with Lupino Lane, English comedian, blown through the stage floor and doing some eccentric comedy with Tom ]Lewis, in shooting raiment from off a girl...
...flapper of either sex, can be dazzled by silk and glitter, and the chance to exhibit a well-shaped calf. Indeed it seems strange that diplomats and statesmen have not recognized the truth of this before, and spared their dignities and their heads by a well-earned distribution of raiment. The American has had his "red-cost", the Chinaman his Manchu queue, the English Cavalier his ground-heard the Frenchman his culottes Descending from the national level even the "Harvard hat" has been its own little storm, center of parental wrath...
...note followed Bishop Manning, including George W. Wickersham, quondam U. S. Attorney General. It was noticed that there were gathered into this one fold, the Fundamentalists and Modernists. The Conservative and Liberal Christians of the Church of the Lord, were peaceful as lambs, having shed their lion's raiment. In connection with the finishing of the Cathedral a drive for $15,000,000 was started by a national committee, of which Franklin D. Roosevelt is the acting head. Money will not be spent while building prices are at their present sky-high level. In any case, about 15 years...