Word: robing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided to put on a show of strength, invited the public (in newspaper ads) to come to an initiation party. About 2,000 responded, clambered to the treeless, rock-strewn peak at night. They saw some 700 men wearing white, hooded sheets, and one who wore a rich green robe. When the Grand Dragon took off his mask he was, as everybody well knew, Dr. Samuel Green, a middleaged, small-mustached Atlanta physician...
...scarlet robe and black plush cap of an Oxford doctor, he stumped into Dr. McCluer's living room, tired but happy. A photographer's bulb exploded. "There must be a Russian in the house," he grinned. His valet slipped him a slug of brandy to reinforce him. Then Winston Churchill stood in the reception line...
...older, wiser Churchill, in the scarlet robe of an (honorary) Oxford Doctor of Civil Laws, last week added two more honorary degrees to his now considerable string. The newest: a Doctor of Laws from the University of Miami, another from Westminster College. In Miami, Dr. Churchill plucked some ripe thoughts about education. Said...
Tall (6 ft. 2 in.), courtly ("You are certainly a good tucker," said Edith Bolling Gait Wilson as he patted a lap robe around her), devout (he came to believe that the Secret Service acted directly under divine providence), and looking somewhat like one of the later Antonines, Colonel Starling soon found himself on the White House Detail. For almost 30 years, first as an "SS man" and later as chief of "the Detail," the Colonel suffered the grave responsibility of guarding the lives of five U.S. Presidents from the homicidal reflexes of their fellow citizens. The result...
Prices were going higher; Chet Bowles would have to move up the beach. But there, unless Congress actually did refuse to renew his price controls when they expire June 30, he could wrap his robe about him and make another stand...