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...presiding officer?an odd fellow who technically does not sit in the chamber while he presides, but must be just outside within an imaginary circle on a large red cloth "sack" or wool-stuffed cushion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: House of Loafers | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...Hempstead, L. I., one Alexander Mazzone, railroad gatekeeper, was observed beside the tracks eating his lunch of caviar off a table on which he had placed a phonograph, a damask cloth, a vase of flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Perfect | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

Auto-Education is the name of the method by which the pupil's attention is awakened. The child is given access to a room full of "didactic material''-scores of ingenious, practical devices which he handles and learns to use. There are pieces of cloth on racks for three-year-olds to button and unbutton, bow-knots to be tied and untied, shoe-buttoners to be handled. Infants, when let alone, learn to identify similar buttons and knots on their own clothing, are thus taught to dress themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Return of Montessori | 2/3/1930 | See Source »

...Wagon-Lits of the International Sleeping Car Company enter Lithuania the attendant in each car covers with a black cloth the map adjacent to the lavatory which shows Vilna to be in fact a part of Poland. He thus spares the feelings of Lithuanians, forestalls riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Quick Council | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

...Legislative Assembly to resign. At once 23 did resign. The Government then fixed Jan. 26 as the date for a "nationwide demonstration." Great was the triumph of India's ascetic little Saint, famed Mahatma Gandhi, boss-politician and demigod of the Congress. Usually he wears only a loin cloth, but at the final session at which his Declaration of Independence was adopted he appeared exclusively clad in a large white sheet which flapped dramatically as he gestured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Puran Swaraj! | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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