Word: apparel
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...silken apparel of wealth are stranger things...
Preparations. Ishbel MacDonald, roseate daughter and hostess of the Prime Minister, was discovered buying apparel for the trip. Laborite feelings were reassured by news that she and her father intended to live from three suitcases apiece-he trusting to luck for golf clubs if they should be usable, she upon diplomatic courtesy for anything her natural complexion might not conquer...
...Adams in a stiff white collar, holding his white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?neither the grey hull, the grey mist nor the white apparel. But he, blind Senator Schall of Minnesota (see p. 16), heard the patriotic whistles of the harbor shipping...
Newsmen wrote. They told how, after a gentle suggestion from a bold photographer, the strikingly handsome Banker Morgan had shifted to a more advantageous position on the deck. They praised the amiable Morgan disposition. They described the Morgan apparel (grey lounge suit, grey fedora). Finally, they related the general Morgan conversation, which was not on Reparations, but on his Mediterranean cruise aboard his yacht Corsair. Of his yachting guest, Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, Banker Morgan told the newsmen...
...unusual contributions to the heterogeneous collection of odds and ends that inevitably finds its way to the P. B. H. van. Uncle Eph and the H. A. A. are forced from competition by the wide appeal and intensity of the annual roundup. Antiques, and unique articles of wearing apparel fascinate those spectators who annually follow with interest the progress of the collection...