Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast to the battle scone, a quiet note is expressed at the right by the sleeper awakening. He represents the regenerated race of man. "The World's New Age hath dawned. . . . Earth rises a second time, from the deep sea; it rises clad with green verdure...
Married. Mary McCormic, 37, opera singer, onetime wife of the late Prince Serge Mdivani; and Chicago Lawyer Homer V. Johannsen, 35; in Kansas City, Mo. Few hours later, clad in blue satin lounging pajamas, she revealed the news at an Excelsior Springs, Mo. hotel, gaily introduced "Mr. McCormic," her fourth, who had proposed to her only that morning...
Interviewing reporters back-stage at the RKO Boston Theatre yesterday, Cantor, clad in shrieking pink underwear, spoke seriously on education...
...most striking picture in the current showing is that of Reginald Marsh, "High Yaller". This depicts a tall negro beauty striding down a Harlem street clad in her best Sunday finery. A dress of extraordinarily bright yellow contrasts strikingly with the grimness of the brownstone steps before which she passes and with the dusky hue of her skin. The modeling of the statesque figure is most carefully and wonderfully done, thereby achieving a most vivid sense of motion and a swinging gait...
Bathroom humor is very old. As to its age, there are two main hypotheses, that it is as old as the hills, and that it is as old as a trouser-clad culture. Advocates of the former theory might admit when pressed that if not as old as the hills it is as least as old as hills with bushes on them. Advocates of the latter theory would claim, if given half a chance, that no such thing existed in, say, Polynesia before the arrival of Captain Cook. But they probably would not have read "Coming of Age in Samoa...