Word: toga
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Lauritz Melchior, heroic-size Metropolitan Opera tenor, arrived in Denver for a concert, sent his suit to the cleaner's, then found that his baggage had not come, had to receive the press toga-ed in a blanket...
...great Christopher Wren in St. Paul's Cathedral, his architectural monument. The monument is not Wren's alone: within the high-domed, Italianate majesty of St. Paul's on London's Ludgate Hill lie British immortals Nelson, Wellington and Jellicoe. Transepts and chapels bulge with toga-ed statues to admirals of the fleet, generals of the line, with monuments to famous victories...
...Reports from Germany last week said that Reich Marshal Hermann Göring had taken to wearing a toga...
...visited King George V to be knighted for his services to the Crown (supplying soldiers and bearers) in World War I. Again he went to London on business, as a director of Akim, Ltd., a diamond mining company. He wore a heavy golden crown, a purple and gold toga. Wherever he went, a small black boy in silk knee breeches walked before him. The boy was the repository of Sir Ofori's soul. He also carried Sir Ofori's heavy ceremonial sword. A year ago Death, as it must to all men, came to Sir Ofori Atta...
...Clothes Modern?" jeers at the world and his wife for wearing symmetrical shoes on unsymmetrical feet, for walking on the punishing pavements of cities when resilient plastic composition would carry weary legs twice as far, for not wearing toga-like clothes-the only truly modern costume, which can flow from machinery like newspapers from presses...