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...Robe Dragging. Other judges are not so able to resist community pressure or go beyond long-held beliefs. After the first Supreme Court desegregation decisions in the 1950s, many Southern district judges dragged their feet, their robes, their dignity and anything else that came to hand in an effort to slow or reverse the course of integration. In Dallas in 1960, for example, Judge T. Whitfield Davidson, then 83, ruled that a plan promising complete desegregation by 1973 was unacceptable-because the school board was moving too fast. Higher courts reversed rulings in the case at least five times...
...height itself worries few tenants; no acrophobe would ever think of moving in. Curtains are not really necessary, although residents use them simply to produce a sense of intimacy or to screen out the early-morning sun. One female tenant, flinging open her curtains one morning before donning a robe, confronted a window washer dangling outside the pane. He was almost as startled...
...party, even putting on his "red dress" for the occasion because the children liked it. One small boy at the school may have spoken for much of the world when a radio reporter asked him to describe Santa Claus. "He's big, and he wears a long red robe," said the child. "And," the boy continued, talking out of the side of his mouth in a raspy voice, "he talks like this...
...down my robe...
Clerance Felder as the Devil then dons angel's robe and halo and takes the "high road" to tempt the Soldier. No longer a sadist, the Devil has become an effeminate masochist...