Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...came bearing a dull sun of gold Upon a cloth of blue...
...Cloth can be sent, as it is now possible to have this made up into clothes in Belgium by destitute Belgian workmen, who are thus given employment. Second-hand goods are no longer wanted, as the regulations of foreign government forbid their entry into Holland and Belgium. President Wilson has cordially approved this relief work and appointed a supplementary committee to help...
...university, which was totally destroyed by the fire started by the German troops the night of August 26 and the morning of August 27, had been built--the lower part in 1317,--after the early Gothic style. It had served for more than two centuries as a cloth warehouse. The upper part had been constructed in the nineteenth century, in the classical style. The halls contained the promotion room, all the bureaus of administration, the archives and all the souvenirs of the university, and finally the library. There, also, until less than two years ago, were the lecture rooms...
...annual custom. Those who are timid of "regular" ministers will perhaps lose some of their shyness before secular professors, deans, and doctors. The others will be much interested to learn the views of Dean Gay and those who follow him. For six days, religion will cast off the cloth and wear, so to speak, the common business suit. In this garb it may well make a deep appeal to some who have considered creeds as things apart from themselves, and worship as a detached something which may hover around everyday life but which never has much to do with...
...pencil drawings of Ypres by the early English master, Samuel Prout (1783-1852) have recently been placed on exhibition. Both drawings were made from the Grande Place, and represent the Hotel de Ville. In one of them the square tower of the famous Cloth Hall appears in the background, and the other one shows two corner turrets and a bit of the Cathedral of St. Martin. These buildings are particularly interesting in the eyes of the world now, because they are said to have been destroyed in the last few weeks by artillery fire...