Word: robing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...robe and white, horsehair wig, Sir Oscar Bedford Daly looked like Oliver Cromwell. The Chief Justice of His Majesty's Supreme Court for the Bahamas was taking testimony in longhand. Before him, at two curved tables, the inner and the outer bar, sat the wigged Crown Counsel and the Defense Attorneys. Their robes were black. Beyond them lolled a dozen U.S. newsgatherers and the 105 black & white citizens of Nassau who had come early enough to get seats. At one side of the shabby, formal room sat the prisoner at the bar, Count Marie Alfred de Fouguereaux de Marigny...
...Fayette Black strode into the Supreme Court Chamber and sat down, cracking a precedent as he did so. Attorneys decently averted their eyes; a court clerk whispered into the Justice's-ear. Out scurried Justice Black, at length floated in again, now properly swathed in his black judicial robe...
Peacetime Ramadan in Egypt had children, rich and poor, wandering from house to house swinging red and green lanterns from poles, singing for candy and food. "Joy, oh joy," they would sing, "the Sultan's daughter is wearing a robe of bright scarlet red, bright lemon yellow. Oh, give to me as is your custom, and a very happy New Year to you." Now there is war: parents will not let their children out in the blackout; villagers do not like to give away any of their expensive, rationed food...
...screen Ernest Hemingway's most delicate episodes, the nights that Jordan and Maria spend together in a sleeping robe, are expertly elusive. Paramount's answer to one wag's question, whether the Hays Office would let sleeping bags lie, is: Yes, but don't go near the water. The closest study cannot determine whether either or both the lovers are or are not in or out of the bag at any time...
...club's own members-"a people's book club organized to provide books selected by the people for the people." The first pre-Gallup selection: Marcia Davenport's best-selling novel Valley of Decision. First premium (for joining): Lloyd Douglas' best-selling The Robe...