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...ROBE-Lloyd C. Douglas-Houghton Mifflin...
...Lloyd mastered the trick. The Robe (Christ's cloak) is a story of the past in modern dress. It describes the conversion to Christianity and martyr's death of Tribune Marcellus Gallic (the Roman who carried out Pilate's order to crucify Jesus) and the life of Marcellus' faithful Greek slave and bodyguard Demetrius. The setting is chiefly Rome, Palestine, Capri...
...Messieurs, la Cour." In a long-sleeved red robe with a jabot of lace at the throat and a cloak with ermine neck piece, the Chief Justice of the special tribunal, velvety Pierre Caous, took his seat. Flanking him were four other justices, an admiral, an Air Force general, glittering with war decorations. At the order "Introduisez les accuses," the five defendants filed in. First was Jacomet, a humble, whipped-dog expression on his lean face. Next the soft-footed, bearlike hulk of Leon Blum, a peasant's woolen muffler wound around his neck. Third was La Chambre, youngest...
Before a foot or wheel had touched the ground, the well-drilled Japanese Foreign Office had turned its attention to the campaign's next objective, Thailand (whose biggest politico, Major General Phya Bahol-pronounced Peeya B'hoon-last month hastily took the non-political yellow robe of a lama, entered a monastery). It looked, said the Foreign Office's Tokyo newspaper, as though Thailand would need the strong helping hand of an outside country to keep the British from disrupting "the good relationship that has developed between Japan and Thailand...
...gaudiest robe of the lot-a dark gown almost armored with gold braid-draped awkwardly on the huge round shoulders of the Chancellor of Bristol University. Winston Churchill. Near him, in the scarlet and salmon pink gowns of doctors of law, stood Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...