Word: capes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saluted again when the three other Habsburg Archdukes entered: Archduke ("Papa") Friedrich (father of Albrecht); Archduke Josef, his mutton chop whiskers sprouting above a crimson field-marshal's uniform; and his son, Archduke Franz, clad in a golden tunic, lost in the high sable collar of his purple cape...
...precisely the colors of male diplomatic attire, black and white. Instead of a "dress shirt" she wore a white crepe de chine blouse. Instead of a "dress tie" she wore a white crepe band around her black cloche hat. Instead of a "dress suit" she wore a black silk cape, and simulated the effect of diplomatic knee breeches by having her black silk dress fall barely below the knees...
...possibility of disunion from the British Empire and a return to Republicanism seems an ideal not hopelessly remote from attainment. Therefore when General James B. M. Hertzog, Dutch-descended Premier of South Africa, returned last week from the Imperial Conference at London (TIME, Nov. 1 et seq.) all Cape Town awaited eagerly his first pronouncement. . . . Would he advocate disunion...
...Back in Cape Town, however, Premier Hertzog wisely took, last week, the line of not encouraging his supporters in vain hopes for a Republic. A careful reading of the Premier's speech shows, however, that it is consistent in letter with his former views of South Africa's absolute right to autonomy. In tone the speech was far more Imperial than is Premier Hertzog's wont...
...gone around the world on 25? and studied "tramping" for years, the sea and its gulls, its tidal slime, fog, dunes and shiny-footed waves, is a source of life in strong, recurrent phases. The first two dozen pieces of this volume evidently reflect a summer spent on Cape Cod with or near a loved woman, whose presence is more felt than seen. Besides these spans, which are briny and refreshing as a dory full of mackerel, are some painful subjective pieces, some not too happy reflections in the classical manner and several lyric miniatures of priceless rarity, "The Toadstool...