Word: undressed
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...Here, you had better drink this. Now you had better undress...
...Author may append to his name, Francis Josiah Hudleston, the enigmatic initials O. B. E., C. B. E.; these signify that he is an officer, a commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
What Bacchanalian tendencies of dress or undress, what custom of venturing forth in airy raiment is throttled by the following rule remains a asrtorial secret...
WARRIORS IN UNDRESS-F. J. Hudleston-Little, Brown ($3.50). As librarian of the British War Office, Mr. Hudleston has pored these many years over curious volumes. To readers of Warriors in Undress it will be instantly self-evident that he long ago formed the excellent habit of jotting down a good thing when he sees it. Probably on these occasions he slaps his knee and cries: "By gad! That's good...
...exorcised her in the oratory of Nôtre Dame des Pleurs, and wish to add that she was completely dressed at the time, as stories told and written about me afterward were that I had obliged her to undress before exorcising...