Word: robe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, the Eisteddfod's main attraction was the solemn Parliament of the Bards (Gorsedd). Here, in colorful array (musicians in blue robes, poets in white, honorary bards in green), the bards met to honor this year's prizewinning poets with their wild applause and with Wales's most coveted trophies: the traditional silver crown and pulpit chair. Last week the applause rose even higher to honor royalty: pretty, bareheaded Princess Elizabeth, clad in a green Druidic robe...
Akihito Tsugo-no-Miya, Hirohito's eldest son, went down to the shore for the summer. In beach robe and summer straw, running with his pooch, Jon, he looked about like any other Jap kid-except that he was a little young and soft for twelve...
Tough of mind, weak of body, he rested when he could, which was not often. His retreat was a modest cottage on Long Island, where he lolled around in a linen cap and pastel-colored beach robe. There, last week, in the small cottage, Sidney Hillman suffered a heart attack and died...
Died. Mme. Jeanne Lanvin, 79, dean of Paris dressmakers and stylesetters, creator of the sensationally successful robe de style (close-fitting bodice, full, sweeping skirt), first couturière to become a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor; in Paris...
Calmest man in the kingdom was the new ruler himself. In an unadorned chamber of his hilltop palace he settled down on his throne-a raised, overstuffed armchair. The tough, aging (64) little man wore a simple black silk abbaya (flowing robe) with a gleaming white shirtfront, a white and gold headdress, and the gold chain which in Arab countries takes the place of a crown. Near him were his two sons and his kinsman Abdul Ilah, Regent of Iraq (which Abdullah dreams of drawing into a Greater Syria federation...