Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auto-Lite plant. By evening the 1,500 workers within, exchanging missiles with the strikers outside, dared not leave. They spent the night barricaded in the plant while windows were smashed, gates broken down. Next day Ohio's Governor White ordered 700 Guardsmen to the plant. Khaki-clad, tin-hatted, armed with gas bombs, rifles, bayonets, machine guns, the young Guardsmen from Ohio's towns and countryside marched in. Not peace but warfare followed. Though the factory ceased operations, rage and resentment seized the strikers who harried the soldiers with insults, jeers, rocks. Every window in the factory...
...Take a look. See eef you can find one black and blue on me." Clad only in a pink "tightie." Cinemactress Lupe Velez pirouetted before a woman reporter in her dressing room in a Brooklyn theatre to scotch a rumor that Husband Johnny ("Tarzan") Weissmuller beat her. Miss Velez: "I sue you, darlin', if you say he ponch...
...thousand ladies and gentlemen in evening dress sat around a narrow, wooden platform beneath the great crystal chandelier of the Biltmore Hotel's grand ballroom in Manhattan one night last week and smiled indulgently as a group of white canvas-clad figures went into a huddle and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, America!" Promptly another huddle formed on the other side of the platform and yelled: "Hip, hip, hurray, Great Britain!" Then 19 U. S. and ten British fencers were given medals. The British got silver ones. The U. S. team got gold ones and a delicately fashioned bronze representing...
...eleven o'clock some 2,000 students appeared in front of the Widener Library. The Chowder Club came out in regalia, one clad in towels holding a "Down with Peace" sign, another in black robes with a bomb, another in boy scout togs tooting a bugle and leading cheers for "We Want War," and the prize of the lot clad as a Nazi Storm Trooper...
...altar steps knelt George William Cardinal Mundelein. All the officiating churchmen were vested in red, the color of the day which was St. Mark's. Flat on his stomach before the altar steps, his face in his arms, his arms on a pillow, lay a figure clad all in white...