Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denali's Wife." "Denali" had been climbed to the top but "Denali's Wife" had not last July when Dr. T. Graham Brown of the University of South Wales & party set up their base camp on the Foraker River. From there the climbers struggled to the ice-clad summit of Mt. Foraker's north peak, four days later through deep new snowdrifts to the crest of the south peak...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
...Joseph's Hospital would accept not one penny of the money thus raised. One Oakley Bidwell, the club's executive secretary, offered public apologies, insisted that what had offended Sister Mary Bertrand was nothing more than "a brief and dignified appearance on the stage of a young lady clad in the armor of the period." Sister Mary Bertrand declared that the Catholic Church is opposed to bathing beauty contests; that the appearance of St. Joan along with Cleopatra and Mme de Pompadour was deeply resented...
Lights first reveal primitive huts, naked, sleeping savages. Sentries stand guard. Tom-toms sound the dawn. The chorus wails as the witch doctor worships the sun. An orchestra crashes and a storm with electric lightning sends the frightened tribesmen cowering. After the storm, hunters clad in red, purple and orange fell a lion, the Dread of the Jungle. The tom-toms beat again as a human sacrifice is prepared. But at the last moment King Mumbra releases the maiden. But neither he nor his witch doctor can prevent the Portuguese traders from capturing his people...
...butlers have long been butts of humor. Depression or no Depression. Says Hawkins: "The hunger marchers are meeting in the grand ballroom, sir." It is the authors' theory that the nudist craze is simply the result of economic law. The pair on the jacket of their work are clad in barrels with shoulder straps. The wife coyly holds a small nail keg while her surprised husband asks: "Why didn't you tell me, dear...