Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their ladies. Sensation of the evening was not Mrs. Roosevelt's gown of lipstick-red velvet with gold collar and sash, not Mme Sze's blue brocaded kimono and diamond tiara, not Danish Minister Otto Wadsted's scarlet coat with its front completely covered by gold braid, but William Edgar Borah in ordinary full dress. Although he has for years been a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the oldest socialites in Washington could not remember when the Senator from Idaho had previously attended such a White House function. "I came." said Senator Borah nobly...
...judges asks. Another is an uncowed, sharp-tongued individual named George Khitov (Walter Greaza), who denounces the accusation as a frame-up, the witnesses as tools of the National Party. When the beefy, ranting Minister of Culture & Enlightenment (Romaine Callender) appears in a uniform ablaze with gold braid and epaulets, he is driven to apoplectic frenzy by Khitov's thrusts: "If this court does not deal with you, you scoundrel," he bellows, "I'll deal with you myself...
...unknown. Said he: "It is my belief that England's freedom from crime today is largely due to that wise period when you hanged a man for stealing a loaf of bread." He made all farms taxfree, prohibited all forms of advertising. If anyone was found wearing gold braid he was made Vice Admiral of the non-existent navy, given no salary but forced to wear a uniform so excessively expensive that its cost ruined...
...tried to corner all the rice in the city, would have done so had not two rice ships arrived unexpectedly in the harbor. Ruin unseated Joshua Norton's reason. He vanished for four years, then turned up in an ill-fitting naval uniform set off with tarnished gold braid and a sabre. He said the California Legislature had made him Emperor of the State. Later, lest his title indicate that California was not part of the Union, he proclaimed himself Emperor of the U. S. When a friend called his attention to the sorry state of Mexican affairs, Norton...
...sure to be memorable. On June 15, two days before the Fleet ends its 17-day visit to New York, all hands will be called on the quarter-deck of the Fleet's flagship, the band will be paraded, high officers will turn out in their gold braid and cocked hats. Admiral Sellers will step forward, read an order appointing him commandant at Annapolis. Then lean, bearded Joseph Mason Reeves will read an order making him master of all U. S. warships. "Bull"' Reeves has been an outstanding naval figure since that autumn afternoon in 1894 when, injured...