Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Howard van Sciver, onetime commodore of the Tri-State Yacht Club at Philadelphia, his son, his daughter and two other young girls, clad only in bathing suits, escaped unharmed when the van Sciver yacht Clarella II caught fire off Cape...
...When, clad in blue overalls, he was arrested last week, he claimed that he was an undercover agent of the U. S. Prohibition Bureau working at the still to get evidence. The Department of Justice admitted he had sought such a job last month but denied that he had been hired. Jailed with a Negro because he could not furnish $1,500 bail, he mused...
Soon this inconvenient idea had been talked down, but later, just as the Act was about to pass second reading who should walk into the House, fresh and elated from a splendid dinner, but the Rt. Hon. Winston ("Winnie") Churchill, big and sportive as a dancing bear,' clad in evening clothes of sleekest cut?and obviously spoiling for a Parliamentary fight...
...altogether for the great Spanish satirist, the Duke of Alba swore that lie would paint Goya's picture in Goya's blood. Friends repeated the threat to the artist. When the Duke arrived unexpectedly at Goya's studio the next day he found his wife lightly but sufficiently clad in flimsy trousers, toreador's jacket, posing for another picture which sly Goya had stayed up all night to paint. Both pictures now hang side by side in the Seville gallery...
...dreary monolog of explanatory comments by Floyd Gibbons, inserted in the U. S. Only silly shot: the opening sequence, with Byrd in a starched white uniform posed at his wheel, to explain why he went South. Epic shots: a school of killer whales lunging up for air; the ice-clad City of New York silhouetted against Ross Barrier; the Stars & Stripes, propelled by a stone from Floyd Bennett's grave, fluttering down from Byrd's plane to the South Pole...