Word: robes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...member of the Harvard Corporation and Director of arrangements for the Tercentenary, bustled up anxiously with a gold-headed umbrella. The President again declined, turned to watch Rome's Professor Corrado Gini break a well-publicized rule of the day by pulling a small camera from under his robe, proceeding to snapshoot the other celebrities...
Another early Krans beloved of the colony's descendants showed a fiercelooking Jansonite settler in his Lapland boots, buffalo robe coat, wide leather belt scaring the daylights out of a Plains Indian. Most decorative was a scene of seven scythe-swinging reapers, moving rhythmically over a gigantic wheat field while the women followed behind, gathering and binding the sheaves...
Professor Elie Cartan of the University of Paris replied in behalf of all the delegates present in French. The small Frenchman with a snow white Van Dkye, dressed in a brilliant scarlet robe declared, "In this land where the development of techniques based on scientific knowledge reached its height, you have always held that science, apart from its practical applications, has a value of its own as a means of culture for the soul; that, like the Humanities, it has its place among the highest of liberating disciplines...
...ambulance which had been hidden behind bushes slipped up to the train. Mr. Morgan in a dark blue silk lounging robe, white flannel trousers, a white silk scarf, was wheeled to the railroad car's rear door. Four men lifted Mr. Morgan & chair to the ground. The ambulance's stretcher on wheels was ready. Mr. Morgan, his legs dangling, partially helped himself to the stretcher, partially was lifted. Soon as he arranged himself comfortably, bearers swung the stretcher into the ambulance, bounced the patient against the ambulance roof. He uttered no sound...
...declare his willingness to "be torn limb from limb and scattered to the carrion" if he betrayed a word of society secrets. After swearing to support God and the Constitution, to give his all in any "war" against Catholics, Jews, Negroes, aliens and Communists, he paid $7 for a robe, 10? monthly dues, bought himself a gun, became a member in good standing. State police variously estimated the Legion's membership in Michigan at from 3,000 to 135,000. Last week in a Detroit court, the 16 sullen, empty-faced prisoners insisted they belonged to the Wolverine Republican...