Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This they did because Spanish editors (see below) were flaying roundly the barbarities of the English chase, and hinting at hypocrisy in the refusal of Edward of Wales to accompany the King of Spain to a bull fight. Characteristically, the London press was indignant, sought the opinion of the Cloth, elicited divergent and sturdy comment from the following reverend gentlemen...
...Mantua, cross-legged tailors were busy last week cutting scores of classic Roman togas from wide bolts of the traditional white woolen cloth. To make a toga for a wearer 5 ft. 8 in. tall, they snipped out a flattened semicircle, 17 ft. from tip to tip, and 5 ft. broad at the widest point. After binding the edges the toga was complete, was taken to the Accademia Vergiliana, famed Mantuan university. There, later in the week, arrived august professors from every Italian university; also from Oxford, Cambridge, La Sorbonne and many another foreign seat of lore...
Only two Lampoon editors became clergymen, while the CRIMSON has produced twelve men who took on the cloth. Politics has also proved unattractive to Lampoon graduates, the only two men who have entered that field being also numbered among the eight CRIMSON editors who grew up to enter public service...
...Once a barmaid, this Lilly marries Benjie Cobb (Arthur Wontner), brilliant student. His devotion to his work as minister of a small parish preys upon her mind. Why should he stick in a mudhole? Why permit his ludicrous preaching to interfere with his attention to her? She hates his cloth, his parish, his sacrifice. The parish, in turn scorns her. For 20 years her husband has struggled to reconcile her to his life. With all the sincerity she can command for a repulsive duty, she strives to conquer her own antipathy. It is not strong enough. When Benjie stays late...
...combat feminism. They remembered not the benevolent attitude toward women-kind of Tamburlaine the Great. He, magnanimous, referred to his chief wife as "The Honorable Great Lady." When she entered a state apartment 15 ladies-in-waiting held up the perimeter of her enormous skirt of silk and cloth of gold to enable her to walk. Three more attendants steadied by silken cords her towering headdress, which began with a wealth of black hair, rose like an immense extinguisher bestudded with gems, and was surmounted by a pretty little gold castle from which sprouted a crowning spray of ostrich plumes...