Word: sleeveless
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...rise of modern Science during this century has brought into the world at large the utensils of the laboratory and the application of research to the international questions of the time. Diplomatic chaff is superseded by "the scientific approach". The sleeveless engineer replaces the dilettante of the tea-table...
...Last recorded (TIME, Jan. 28), Rockefeller weights were: Senior, 135 Ibs., Junior, 170 Ibs. † Including the Misses Radclyffe (The Well of Loneliness) Hall and Norah C. (The Sleeveless Errand) James, two British spinsters whose books have been recently suppressed...
...forbidden to enter the temple in decollete, sleeveless or transparent gowns...
...them. A Roman Catholic bishop wears an alb, as does, too, the medieval priest of the Eastern Catholic Church. The latter's alb has alternate red and white stripes to signify the blood and bonds of Christ. Chasuble. This (Anglican Church) garb is a heavily embroidered circular garment, sleeveless and to be slipped over the head, made of moiré silk preferably. Over the shoulders and down the spine, spreads a magnificent cross in the shape of the Greek letter ψ. This garment is quite the same in the Roman and Eastern Church. Dalmatic and Tunicle. This...
...fine stretches of fatted calf. He unbuttoned his shirt, baring a chest mottled with a biblical growth of curly hair. Then he mounted his pulpit. "I want to show the girls," he announced to his gasping, giggling, shrinking congregation, "how they look to others when . . . they wear short, sleeveless, low-necked frocks. I strongly . . . condemn such costumes. They bring tears to the eyes of the girls' elders...