Word: claddings
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...with a candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices. Last, preceded by pages and surrounded by a retinue of priests, marched the scarlet cardinals,* with purple-clad Prelate Bonzano dispensing blessings upon his genuflecting worshipers. Said Cardinal Hayes in delivering the sermon: ". . . . This magnificent edifice ... is in very truth 'a structural Te Deum.' ... In the early centuries it was through the preaching of 'Jesus Christ and Him crucified' that the church drew under...
...roving gas engineer who plays the violin. Mrs. Sidney Erskine Brewster, petite and 26, did not guard the letters he wrote her with discretion. Mr. Brewster, 29, was an aviator, Manhattan scion, grew not to perceive the jest, killed his wife as she was dressing for dinner clad only in her chemise, killed himself. What editor or printer's devil in the U. S. does not know that? But what editor asked: "Who is Roscoe Platt Conkling? A descendant of 19th Century Manhattan Republican Boss Roscoe Conkling? A namesake of Roscoe's voter-bludgeoning henchman, Thomas C. Platt...
...Grace of God King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, had donned the uniform of a colonel-in-chief of the Royal Horse Guards. Her Majesty the Queen-Empress shimmered majestically, clad in a gown of silver tissue overlaid with tulle embroidered with pearls, wearing a tiara of diamonds, the blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced...
...Soviet Chargé d'Affaires, M. Rozejolev, attended wearing satin knee breeches and a jeweled sword. Ambassador Houghton was clad in ordinary evening dress...
...well-armed and warlike people command all the northern passes through the Hindu Kush-the highways trod by Alexander the Great, by Genghis Khan. Though the city of Kabul is an unredeemed stench hole, the adjacent palaces of potent nobles lie amid perfumed gardens, nestle below the snow-clad stupendous Hindu Kush...