Word: garbed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...before skillful direction, and one is sure to find the "indulgence" ample fare. "Cake" may not cause the rafters of Brattle Hall to ring with unrestrained laughter, but there are certain to be wry smiles up Cantabrigian sleeves, as this or that familiar platitude is aired in the quaint garb which Mr. Bynner has provided. Like the three-year-old we shall eat the frosting which he has spread on his delectation, leaving the more solid fare to the erudite, if there be any such in attendance, unrepelled at the prospect of a "fantasy in verse...
These pleas to sound thought and comfort brought results when more than 500 students appeared in newly styled garb. As a starter nothing more promising could have been expected. Next spring Dartmouth men will again don shorts and in all probability to a greater extent than they did last year...
Bold indeed would a Cabinet member be to go on a summer holiday without his President's consent. Because President Hoover has continued to work through Washington's great heat, his Cabinet has remained dutifully by his side. In tropical garb-linen suits, white flannels, mohairs, panama hats, white shoes-they have trooped in and out of the White House to the semiweekly Cabinet meetings where they silently envied the President his cool quarters. When President Hoover fortnight ago publicly announced his intention to take his vacation this month in the Rocky Mountains, his official aides accepted that...
This reference was to the famed Twelve Orders "on women's immodest fashion of dress" issued by authority of Pope Pius XI some months ago to higher Catholic clergy throughout the world. Order No. 1 declares that "the parish priest . . . should insist, argue, exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and that their ornament be a defense of virtue." Order No. 5 states that "headmistresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order...
...game itself is sort of a cross between soccer and football and the players dress in the garb of a soccer player. The ball used is similar to the oval of American football (in fact, that's what they're playing with on Soldiers Field right now). The ball is advanced for the greater part by carrying and passing at the same time, similar to the way it is done in touch football but one is allowed to tackle the runner--although interference is not allowed. The scoring system reminds one of the one that was in vogue in America...