Word: robe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
From the Hollywood Bowl last week many an auditor glanced up at a hill 1,000 ft. away where, once an evening, a spot light picked out a man in a flowing robe stumbling along with a cross. In an out door theatre beneath the hill was being performed the Pilgrimage Play, a 15-year-old event in California. Compiled by the late Christine Wetherill Stevenson, a rich Bible student who left money to assure its performance, the Pilgrimage Play presents the entire life of Christ. The actors, like Ian Maclaren who has been Christ for six years, are professionals...
...Hayes said a few praiseful words, read aloud a cablegram of felicitations from the Pope. Priests celebrated mass. A choir of friars sang. But not a person in the jubilee throng laid eyes on the Reverend Mother Mary Seraphim. Poor Clares are strictly cloistered. Clad in a rough, grey robe and cloth sandals, that 73-year-old Irish-born nun heard the celebration in her honor from behind a screen...
...dozen men's shirts, assorted sizes and colours, four pairs of men's pajamas, assorted sizes and colours; one blue and white beach robe...
...lounging robe, blue silk with gold edges...