Word: clasps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Standards, after measurement of 14,400 pairs, decided the standard length should be 27½ inches from heel to top. On a girl 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 130 lb., the hose will come eight inches above the knees. Stockings of this length can be held by clasp or band garters, or be rolled. Children's stockings will range from 15 to 26.5 inches. Men's socks will be 14 and 14½ inches long...
Perhaps Helen Wills is keeping a diary of what she does these sunny days at Cannes. It is rumored that she makes entries every evening in a large notebook bound in red morocco and fitted with a silver clasp-lock, whose contents a U. S. publisher has contracted to bring out in the fall. If Miss Wills is really writing a diary, her many admirers are likely to read it more for its probable charm than in the expectation of finding out anything new about her, for the newspapers have reported her activities so elaborately that what she puts...
...certain of death; had been refusing all medicines. Towards the last, attendants thought they heard him whisper " . . .rien qu'attendre . . ." About two o'clock in the afternoon he went into a deep coma. The oxygen did no good. Kneeling and holding in the Cardinal's clasp a lighted taper was a nursing sister. Brother Hubert of the Community of Morey, kneeling, held the other hand. Both prayed softly for the soul of their superior...
...year 1925, with all of its joys and sorrows, its failures and successes, has joined its fellows in the great ocean of the past. The old year is a memory, the new year is an event. A tear for the old, a warm hand clasp for the new, a sigh for the departed, a song for the new guest. What happened yesterday has been consigned to the tomb. The future concerns...
...officials of the congress in emblazoned capes; a slender crucifer and two boys bearing candles; and then-with a swishing of heavy skirts in the pomp of pontifical elegance, ageless, sombre, and fiercely-burning- the Bishops. Each was vested in a magnificent cope secured with a jewel-crusted clasp and held open, on the right and left, by two deacons of honor. Each Bishop wore a mitre. The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic. Last of all came the bishop of the diocese, the Right Reverend Chauncey...