Word: toga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Purpose: to be on hand at the prospective birth of a grandchild. Manhattanites were talking about Raymond Duncan, eldest brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan.- He arrived in their midst as Paris has known him for years-clad as an ancient Greek. Manhattan pedestrians gaped at his homespun toga, his sandals, his long-flowing, fillet-bound locks. Apostle...
...familiar--even the first year man with a sheet draped toga-wise about him, undergoing a few preliminary initiation stunts at the hands of a merry group of sophomores...
Theoretically, the newspaperman belongs to a "fourth estate," proud in its antecedents, jealous for its membership, mighty in affairs. Actually he binds his toga with shoelace and a piece of string, and now and then he must take to his heels with some irate mere first-or second-estater grabbing at the frayed vestment...
...pedestrianism in the torch light parades of both parties, such pranks might have been condoned. But with the publication of absentee voting regulations for students and inmates of soldiers' and sailors' homes, with the actual organization of clubs, with the compiling of lists of names, the donning of the toga virilis becomes a more serious responsibility...
...Publix studios. The exact idea is rather difficult to grasp but it seems there was a hunting party. Mr. Rodemich's frenetic drummer is quite delighted with his little hunting cap. It's a good thing too--the boy has not been a bit contented since he wore that toga plus a hair-ribbon come these two weeks...