Word: robes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Husky, brown-robed Father Yvon, 45, thinks of himself as curé of "the world's largest parish," extending across the Atlantic from Brittany to Greenland, thence south to the Grand Banks off Newfoundland. Besides the 4,000 Breton fishermen, his parishioners include 1,500 Portuguese and some Faroe Islanders. Resting last week at the Dinard monastery after a lecture tour in which his Paris appearance was the last of 60, the good curé delayed his departure only in order to fetch the fleet its first batch of mail. Later, with the St. Yves plying between the Banks...
Typical of this period, portraiture has been subordinated to the artist's desire of representing an ideal knight. The serene, dignified features of the effigy, majestically draped folds of the robe, and the time-scarred yet well preserved surface of the wood lends an atmosphere of permanence to this old statue which has reclined so calmly on its slab for over five centuries...
...spokesman, he is bland, stocky Prince Te who goes often to Peiping, finding that the most comfortable place in which to haggle and compromise with the Japanese. One of the last Orientals to wear the old-fashioned cue, the Prince is of little more significance than a stuffed silk robe. Inner Mongolia is at the mercy of all its neighbors. Battle of the Temple. Outer Mongolia has been a Soviet Republic for twelve years and the only...
...doffed my robe, slipped into the pool, and was soon swimming quietly in the water--Eleanor Roosevelt in her column. My Day, in the N. Y. World Telegram...
...customary to wear a robe for the ordination service, and any minister (man or woman) who is properly dressed wears black in the pulpit, not blue and gold. And the most of us do not take our Bibles in swimming with us. I was ordained deacon in September 1931 and elder in September 1933. I resent publicity stunts of any kind in the ministry...