Word: robes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a year ago, at the Amerika Institute in Berlin, where she had, appeared in protest at haying been brutally beaten, kicked threatened, frightened near to death, and was black and blue from head to foot that very moment. She had been dragged from her hotel in her night robe, flung into a stone ice-cold cell, held there incommunicado for 28, hours "Bertillioned," beaten sneered at, threatened with sexual assault, witnessing the beating to death of some poor Jew before her cell there, lost her voice from fright, scared by a huge police dog being sicked onto her, kept...
Last week Chao Kung turned up in Victoria, B. C. Canadian officials offered no nonsense. Apparently well supplied with money, dressed in a black satin robe and accompanied by ten male and female Buddhists, Chao Kung said: "I want to be friends with the British and the world in general." He announced he would cross the continent, deliver some lectures, proceed to Germany. He explained that (like Locanatha Bhikkhu) he is a vegetarian. "It is not that we believe in unnecessarily castigating the body, but we believe the mind works better if the body is fed less. Buddhism demands precise...
...last week carpenters had built a small replica of Peiping's great open air Altar of Heaven with its ceremonial steps. Ready, too, was an imperial throne of ebony, carved with dragons and orchids. Tailors embroidered robes of imperial yellow and jewelers had carved a Ju Yee or sceptre of jade. Since meteorologists announced that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom...
Among costumes affected by the No. 2 Nazi, beefy Hermann Wilhelm GÖring who holds more offices in Germany than anyone else, is a blue velvet robe made like the toga of a Roman Emperor, complete with a tame lion cub trained to sit impressively beside Prussian Premier GÖring's desk...
...Palace of Justice this week Deputy Andre Hesse, onetime lawyer of Swindler Stavisky, was set upon and his robe nearly torn off by an indignant young attorney who kept shouting "How dare you show yourself here!" Pummeling each other the two rolled on the floor until separated and dragged before the president of the Paris Bar for a slashing reprimand...