Word: alpaca
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...puffy blouses worn by the women who rode in them. Then the later Packards, with the lined hood that still distinguishes them, appeared; gigantic limousines, touring cars like towers, and snorting red racers. The windshields were rimmed with brass; the men who sat bolt upright behind them wore alpaca dustcoats...
...conduct of the American officers.' . . ." Colonel Thompson then departed, proceeded on to Jolo, Sulen Island, where was another disturbance, this time a minor one, culminating in the Moro datus* unsheathing their barongs and krises ominously, but quickly quieting when appeared a little brown figure in white alpaca coat, pongee trousers, patent leather shoes, stiff color, fez. Hadji Jamalul Kiram II, famed sultan of Sulu, then spoke: ". . . If we are cast off now [by the Americans] we will fight. They can cut our heads off before we will submit to the Filipinos...
Brigadier General A. C. Dalton is 60 years old. Square-jawed and weather-beaten by many years of gallant army service (D. S. M.), his frame illy accords with an alpaca suit. He received what shipping experience he possesses during 1917-18 in the Transport Service...
...preacher from Georgia in a bungalow on wheels drowsily draws on his outlandish costume-alpaca coat, shabby policeman's trousers and an opera hat- and hopes that the new day may bring him an audience for his weird sermon proving that Negroes are not human beings. The barker for a tent show called The She-Devil clears his throat...