Word: robes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Selwart, an ingratiating actor of the Francis Lederer type), a Hessian deserter to the cause of Liberty & Equality. Mistress Prudence, having invited him to bed because firewood is dear, climbs in with her clothes on, sits there with the blanket wrapped about her in the manner of a lap robe and, as a final guarantee of innocence, pulls down a centreboard between them. All this provides Mr. & Mrs. Langner with plenty of material for salty preliminary lines, occupies two acts of their comedy. A fire-eating Virginia cavalryman, a hell-scorched preacher and a bumbling sheriff...
...Gorgulov insisted that he was a "Green Russian," founder of the "Green Fascist Party" (non-existent). In jail he expressed a desire to found the "Green Religion," asked for a green robe, green sheets and green vegetables, was granted only the vegetables...
...Government. , -." Lord Chancellor Sankey, in full robe and wig, advanced to the throne and on slightly bended knee presented to George V the King's Speech, written every year by the Cabinet...
After several weeks of probity, the Graphic reverted last week to type in what looked like its final week-end edition. As tailpiece to an affronting chapter in U. S. journalism, on the front of the rotogravure section was the picture of a film actress with a robe slipping from her shoulders and thighs. Beneath her was a caption for a story on an inside page: SEX MYSTERIES REVEALED...
...Rome. Yet there is no attempt to proselyte the audience, to make it feel that devotion to the church is better than the love of a boy and a girl. There is no gratuitous singing of an angel choir to cheer this heartbroken boy in a priest's robe as he goes walking on his way alone...