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Thence, this day to seek the sweet tradition. So as a Vagabond I to dress, very handsome, in mousey grey trousers, new ascot to match, and glad was the woman to fetch the cutaway: "Not in a year has it been out", and so with shining topper and swinging stick, I to church and my cloak blowing in the breeze...
...Ethiopians do not consider themselves Negroes," continued Negro Julian, adjusting his Ascot and eyeing the crease in his Savile Row pearl-striped trousers. "American Negroes should keep out of international affairs! I saw Ethiopian soldiers tortured and mutilated because they had stolen a bit of grain or refused to fight. It was not only brutality by the Ethiopians toward Italian prisoners, but toward men, women and children of their own race. I saw children who had stolen a little bread, with hands chained to their feet. I have not written a book, I have written an epistle...
Henley regatta was held in a blaze of sunshine again this year. It is the finest function of the year to those who know it, although it does not rank with Ascot and Cowes in the debutantes programme. Cambridge crews were victorious in three events, and Cambridge blazers everywhere in evidence on the bank. The Diamond sculls, held by a German, have gone to Switzerland now. The rowing world hopes it will be able to welcome an American crew next year to the regatta. But the rowing is only a part of Henley; there are meetings of old rowing...
...William Cardinal O'Connell at Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross. First State wedding in Massachusetts history, surrounded by the pomp & panoply of a royal nuptial, the ceremony was witnessed by 3,000 persons including twelve blushing policemen in hired cutaways, striped trousers, silk hats, ascot ties, grey spats and puce-colored vests...
...These duties, if Sir Austen's anthology gave the whole story, would seem to be wholly public, and pity would then be one of the emotions aroused in the populace at the sight of Majesty opening the London County Hall (1922), inspecting troops, or watching the races at Ascot. Enough pomp and circumstance still attends public occasions in England for Mr. Max Beerbohm's admiration for royalty, when he contemplates the "cheap and tawdry inmates of the White House and the Champs Elysees," to be somewhat justified, even in the eyes of stanch republicans. One doubts, nevertheless, whether certain...