Word: robed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the 13 U. S. citizens comprising the original Millspaugh Mission arrived in Teheran, five years ago, each one wisely clapped upon his head a Persian variant of the fez, then put on over his business suit a long, ornate Persian robe. The 100% Persian effect of this costume was only slightly marred in Dr. Millspaugh's own case by his spectacles, his small three-cornered mustache, and the high batwing collar peeping out above his robe. The experts, thus garbed, at once began to grapple with Persians and Persian finance...
...deep, booming voice had a note savoring of genuine anguish last week, as it reverberated from many an haut parleur.† Said he: "My name, la marque Poiret, has been damaged, my art thwarted, by American women who have not used discretion in buying or copying my creations. . . . Each robe Poiret is meant, need I say it, for one certain type of woman. Mais . . . [with nasal protest] les dames Américaines, what do they do? Alas! Too often an American woman of one kind buys in their shops a Poiret gown which is not for her. . . ." Many who listened...
...approach of the mad yet somehow great King Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845-1886). The hoofbeats become a roar, and then the gilded coach or sleigh is seen. In the darkness its powerful interior lighting reveals the King, often in his golden crown, lolling at ease yet disconsolate. A robe of rich stuff lies across his knees and those of the young officer who is always beside him?for Ludwig will have none of women. The mad King loves, and believes he has always loved, Marie Antoinette (1755-1793), wife of Louis XVI. For her Ludwig has built Linderhof...
Finally as the old Harvard cheer with nine Hollisheimer on the end rent the air, forward stepped the President of the University who threw his doctor's robe over something of what had been Appleby to signify that-the last of the Hollisheimer had attained his degree...
Came dawn. And the Student Vagabond reached for his Encyclopedia, Shelley's "Works", and a cigarette. And then, helter skelter, he went roaming around the Yard in his cavalier pink robe de nuit searching the most delightful little lectures possible...