Word: robes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finkelstein of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America appealed for a permanent commission to inculcate "moral and spiritual values" into the U.S. public school system. But Boston University's President, black-browed, white-haired Methodist Minister Daniel L. Marsh, resplendent in a self-designed scarlet mortarboard and scarlet robe with ermine epaulets, dramatized the new temper of the times in terms any freshman could understand. In his address he called attention to the fact that the new limestone chapel, which bears his name, adjoins the new theology school on one side, and the colleges of Liberal Arts and Business...
...white-haired old party named Jack Alonzo Goldie got into a Chinese robe at Rockport, Mass. last week, put a black band around his head and announced that 1) he was The Zoom, and 2) that an H-bomb was going to blow the world up on April 7, 1954. He asked one & all to become Zoomites, and join him in burrowing underground. Father Divine took a different attitude. He claimed that he was responsible for the bomb, through some kind of telepathic influence on President Truman, and that it was a fine thing. His exact words: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful...
GREAT BRITAIN Whistle in the Dark In the state coach that Queen Victoria got in Ireland, King George VI this week rode to Westminster, put on his robes of state (an ermine cape, a robe of purple velvet over a military uniform), and formally opened Britain's most evenly divided Parliament in 40 years. The King walked slowly into the House of Lords, his head held stiffly under the weight of the heavy (2½-Ibs.), jeweled crown of state. Queen Elizabeth, impressive in gold-embroidered white satin and pearls, walked by his side, her white-gloved left hand...
Talk of the United States world of large cities, department stores, and universities where thousands of students live together brings large smiles to the Gegen's face. His friends, the Lattimores, tell of interesting experiences when the Gegen, in his ornate, heavy silk Oriental robe, enters the large New York emporiums...