Word: robed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...song called "It Can't Happen Here," a ballet of Men in Black, Men in Brown. Men in Red, a procession of four miniature battleships moving across the water accompanied by martial music and the drone of airplane propellers. At the climax, a girl in a rhinestone robe mounts in a hidden elevator to the tower-top, with an escort of imitation West Point cadets and fireworks bursting over her head...
...Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way for Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt); I Met Him in Paris (Claudette Colbert, Robert Young, Melvyn Douglas...
Born in Idutywa, South Africa, David Mdodana was taken to the U. S. in his youth by Baptist missionaries. They sent him to several Negro universities-Shaw, Tuskegee, Hampton, Selma. He celebrated 25 years of work by donning a white satin robe stitched by women of his church, preaching 25 of his best sermons consecutively in 17 hours. Some of the sermons: The Prodigal Son, The Beam and the Mote, Be Still, Ethiopia Stretches Forth Her Hands, Where Are We Spiritually, Educationally and Socially?, The Soul's Anchor, The Borrowed...
...Live (Walter Winchell, Ben Bernie, Jack Haley, Alice Faye); The Prince and, the Pauper (Billy & Bobby Mauch, Errol Flynn); A Star Is Born (Janet Gaynor, Fredric March); Make Way For Tomorrow (Victor Moore, Beulah Bondi); Kid Galahad (Edward G. Robinson, Bette Davis, Wayne Morris); Under the Red Robe (Raymond Massey, Annabella, Conrad Veidt...
...pace of the whole performance, from the start of the Procession to the march up the Abbey's aisle, has been prodigiously slow, sedate, the cadence of Empire. King George breaks his tempo when, before being robed in the garments of state and beneath a canopy that screens him from nearly all, he whisks off the red robe that he has been wearing, passes it briskly to the Lord Great Chamberlain, who was supposed to divest him ceremoniously. The Lord Great Chamberlain looks bewildered. Lady Reading, widow of the onetime Viceroy of India, observes: "Like a man handing...