Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...especially wishes him well because he fears that, if Governor Landon is elected, the New Deal's reciprocal trade agreement with Canada may be ended. Under a pavilion erected on the grass above the broad boardwalk of the terrace Lord Tweedsmuir stepped forward, looking, for all his gold braid, his medals and his cocked hat, very much the dyspeptic man of letters he is, and began: "Mr. President, as the personal representative of His Majesty the King, I offer my most cordial greetings to the first citizen of the United States. Canada welcomes you, sir. . . ." Next greeter was Premier...
...trim khaki, eschewing gold braid and gaudy epaulets, the 1935 model Chinese field marshals, generals and satraps gathered in Nanking last week. Almost every Chinese of importance was there. Never before had China's Methodist Dictator, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, drawn around himself quite so many of China's military élite. Even the great has-been among Chinese war lords, strapping, whimsical and always surprising "Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, trekked down from his retirement near the Tai Shan ("Sacred Mountain") to announce good humoredly that he is "now a devout Buddhist...
...major titles. No nonentity, he played on the British Ryder Cup team two years ago, admitted last week that his golf in the Open was the best that he had played for two years. A onetime caddy who learned his game at 6, an assistant to famed James Braid at 14, Perry plays with a quick stroke which looks odd because he keeps his right hand under the club, uses a scythe-like swing. Among the absurd legends about him which he had to deny last week was one, invented by reporters who could think of nothing else...
...Gold braid and Sam Browne belts go on mass parade as the grand march of the annual Military Ball swings down the dance floor of the Copley-Plaza at 10.30 o'clock tomorrow evening...
Left. By the late Lord Riddell, publisher of News of the World (TIME, Dec. 17): some $9,490,000; to his widow ($500,000 and an annuity of $40,000); to servants, charities; to Lloyd George, Winston Churchill and Golfer James Braid ($5,000 each...