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...externals distinguish a Church of England bishop from a U. S. Episcopal bishop. For outdoor wear the Church of England bishop affects long gaiters of snug black broadcloth. He is ranked a Lord and so addressed by his flock. But these distinctions have lately seemed irksome to Anglican clergymen. During the Oxford Movement centenary (TIME, July 17). the Bishop of Kensington complained of his gaiters, crying that "100 years have failed to provide us a sensible costume." And last week the Bishop of Bristol told his congregation to cease calling him "My Lord." Declared he: "In the old days, when...
...crowned velvet hat "with feather fantasy caught under the nice brim ... for the 40's or 50's or 60's" was unmistakably Mrs. Edna Woolman Chase, gracious, able editrix-in-chief of the three Vogues published in Manhattan, London, Paris. The drowsy blonde in the broadcloth beret (for ladies "this side of thirty") at the opposite side of the group was surely Nancy Hale Hardin, author of The Young Die Good, staff member of Vogue for four years. At Mrs. Chase's left, representing "the stretch between youth and middle age," was Mrs. Emma Vogt...
Most Senators thought they had heard the final heffling of James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, their hulking colleague for a decade, when on March 4, 1931 the 71st Congress was silenced. As the Capitol's double doors closed on his flapping broadcloth coat tails, they believed that his creamy vest, his lush black tie, his florid face and droning voice had passed forever from the scene. Had Alabama not repudiated him in 1930 for political apostasy, electing John Hollis Bankhead in his place? Those who supposed they were through with heffling were mistaken. Last week, in full oldtime regalia...
...wholesale importer imports 12 boxes of broadcloth, each containing 12½ bolts of 31¼ yards a bolt at $2-5/6 a yard. What...
...Prohibition of Cruel Sports protested (TIME. Feb. 9). Everyone at Eton looks forward to St. Andrew's Day (Nov. 30) when the famed Wall Game takes place between teams representing Eton's 70 scholarship students, the Collegers (called "Tugs" from their traditional toga-like garments of black broadcloth) and the Oppidans (the rest of the students). The Wall Game is played with a football the size of a grapefruit against a long wall. Object is to dribble the ball down the wall and send it through a goal. This is almost impossible under the complicated rules; only three...