Word: robing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, Miss Millay strikes a tone of modern cynicism. Aelfrida appears before the royal guest in all her glory, wearing a golden robe, splendid in her favorite gems. The betrayer is betrayed. He plunges his dagger into his heart. He commits suicide in a "nice" way, explains Miss Millay. No fuss, tenor solo, orchestral pomposity; no sentimental worblings of lost love and noble remorse. Like a true Saxon, he quietly takes his life, "for himself," not glory or revenge. Aelfrida weeps but Eadgar says to her: "Thou hast not tears enough in thy narrow
...huge Palace of Westminster, called the Houses of Parliament, the lords and mighty prelates of the Realm were sitting on benches of soft red morocco. The King and Queen were on their thrones-His Majesty bedight with "the ermine, the purple and the crown." Queen Mary's robe of cloth-of-silver, blazing with diamonds, betokened that the Court is no longer in mourning for the late Queen Alexandra...
Lady of sadness, Death came to her in a white wintry robe. Eight young officers bore her coffin to the royal crypt in the Laeken Cháteau, near Brussels. Albert, King of the Belgians, and the Royal Family paced behind it slowly to the sad measures of Chopin...
...persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that, if the peccadillos of the lowly are covered by the tattered garment of obscurity, the indiscretions of the great should be screened by the ample robe of law. For my part I honestly consider the immbralities of all classes upon...
Diligent, the priest wrote out a petition to the Emperor, setting forth the sins of his countrymen, especially the politicians. Serene, he donned the death robe of one about to commit harakiri, and purchased a disemboweling knife. Shrewd, he covered the white death robe with a dark overgarment and lay in wait for Prince Regent Hirohito near the Regent's Palace...