Word: robe
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Miss Alma Rubens, cinema actress (current film: Under the Red Robe), to Dr. Daniel Carson Goodman, author and cinema producer. The marriage, which was celebrated "on or near Labor Day" in a place not designated, was only recently announced...
...Kaiser, Grand Master of the German section of the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (Deutsche Johanniterorden), officiated at a meeting of the Order in Potsdam. Der Feld-marshall von Hindenburg, as Sword Bearer, was in attendance. The Prince, clad in a black robe and " decorated with flashing crosses," raised six members, chosen Monarchists, to knighthood in the Order by tapping them on the shoulder with a sword passed to him by the Sphinxlike Hindenburg...
...figures are in mediaeval Italian dress, standing in a meadow, each holding a book. The figure on the left, in profile wears a grey gown over a red robe, and a red cap; he is apparently about to be crowned by a small winged genius. The figure on the right, standing three-quarters towards the front, wears a blue gown with red cuffs, red shoes, and a red hood. On his head, over the hood, is a laurel wreath. The portrait has a reddish gold background...
...this loud and continuous demand for hard exercise makes me tired. What this country needs is a rest. I rise in defense of the easy chair and the lounging robe...