Word: robing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mamie provided a show within a show. Mamie, sharing a lap robe with Herbert Hoover, smiled and applauded the corniest floats, and when the Purdue University Glee Club serenaded her with the love song of the Chicago sound wagons, Mamie, What a Wonderful Name for the First Lady of the Land, she jumped up and blew kisses. The President stood soldierlike through it all (he spurned the easy way, a concealed stool used by Harry Truman four years ago). He stood at solemn attention for every passing flag, and whenever a contingent of marching women came by, he gallantly doffed...
When she has answered her letters, Wanda Landowska is ready to descend. She loops her long, still-black hair, only sparsely greyshot, around her head, dons her blazing red corduroy robe ("red is for violence, like Bach, sometimes"), her flat, gold-mesh slippers and goes down to the kitchen for a breakfast of figs, dates and lettuce...
...deep new tan and recovered his old bounce. The veins that stood out on his forehead and hands during the last days of the campaign were no longer visible. And, most convincing to any wife, Ike remembered Mamie's birthday (her 56th) with a pink wool robe and a nightgown...
Like Victoria at her first Parliament, Elizabeth II has not yet been crowned. Her crown was borne before her on a crimson cushion by the Marquess of Salisbury; a coronet of diamonds and pearls took the crown's place on her brow. A velvet robe caped with ermine hung from her shoulders, its 6-yd. train supported by two page boys. At her left walked her husband, Philip, who foreswore the traditional trappings of a Royal Duke for the dress uniform of a naval commander.* He guided Elizabeth to a spot just before her throne and stepped down...
Buddhism is one of the most pervasive of all religions, and theologically one of the most accommodating. In the 2,500 years since Gautama Buddha first preached his doctrines in India, they have spread over Asia like a billowing saffron robe. In the process, Buddhist doctrines have been porous enough to admit and blend with local beliefs, such as spirit-worship in Burma, Confucianism in China, and the ancestor worship of Japanese Shinto...