Word: robes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anyone can see that the priests are popular, that Buddhism is popular in Siam. The eighty-odd French and English cars in King Prajadhipok's garage are all the color of a Buddhist's robe, yellow, national color of Siam...
...proud that I sit in the senate of the church as a cardinal, a senate of 70 members from all parts of the world, and when I sit there as a cardinal, under my cardinal's robe is a heart that pulsates with the highest sentiments of gratitude to the almighty God that I am at the same time an American citizen...
...dais close to Their Majesties, Edward of Wales also had a cold. When he could stand his own snuffling no longer, H. R. H. daringly extracted a handkerchief from beneath his imposing, ermine-collared robe and blew his nose. "It was tremendously human and so very much like the Prince," cabled the New York Time's sensitive Charles A. Selden. "That white handkerchief served as a most restful spot for the eyes. . . . General Dawes served the same useful purpose. . . . His Chicago full evening dress was a relieving splash of black and white against the blue, green, gold and scarlet...
...Bedford Road, Toronto, a warmish morning last week, to behold a concrete compliment for his isolating insulin from the pancreas (sweetbread). His University, which had already created a chair of medical research for him, this morning was going to dedicate his splendidly-equipped Banting Medical Institute. In black silk robe gaudy with doctorate trimmings of four universities Professor Banting spent a long day attending ceremonies and meals, hearing speeches, encomiums. Pat was the praise of Berkeley George Andrew Lord Moynihan of Leeds, president of the Royal College of Surgeons: "His memorial is the gratitude in the hearts of millions...
...flames mount. Baluk, his stoic face agonized, lays by his tom-tom and draws his robe over his head in the inferno. But then the sentinels' signal fires flare. Baluk is dragged off the pyre still alive to lead the tribe against the milling, trampling, stampeding, incredible game herd. Dagwan is sent away for "the slow death" (starvation) while the tribe feasts and laughs and toboggans. The silent enemy, Hunger, snarls his defeat from the lowering arctic storm-scud...