Word: clad
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...their hotel, blinked at two Swedish maidens wearing crowns of lighted candles. Known as "Lucia Brides," they served coffee, an old Swedish custom observed in the dawn each Dec. 13. Sensing that a photographer had sneaked into the room to flashlight the prizeman & wife in bed, pajama-clad Mr. Lewis tusseled with the fellow, threw...
...manifested proud hauteur to ward the mere civilian delegates of British India. Scorned by these in turn, two miser able delegates of India's untouchables [lowest class] scuttled to their places. All the Princes and Maharajas were gorgeously pugreed [turbaned], but all except a few were somberly, impressively clad in long ajkans [tightly-buttoned, turtlenecked black frock coats]. Overawed, Correspondent Raymond Gram Swing of the New York Evening Post cabled of the princes...
...Grande do Sul's victorious Dr. Getulio Vargas arrived to be proclaimed Provisional President of Brazil a million people milled through the streets, cheered the red-green- &yellow flags of Rio Grande do Sul everywhere displayed, cheered when the Federal sentries at Cattete Palace were replaced by khaki-clad revoluntionaries. From Cattete Palace he loftily announced that the new government would wreak no political vengeances, punish only the criminal misuse of public funds. His formal assumption of office was in minor key. In civilian afternoon dress he descended a flight from his apartment on the palace third floor...
...what a catch!" grinned impeccably clad Edward. "A fine mess we'd be in, gentlemen, if we fell into that...
...church was celebrating its 80th anniversary. Through the congregation circulated the same respectable, soberly-clad gentlemen who take up the Maplewood collection every Sunday. But today, every now and then one of these gentlemen would pucker his lips and, discreetly yet unmistakably, whistle...