Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rome and missed him (TIME, Sept. 20). Last week II Duce visited Bologna. Amid a teeming throng he opened the new athletic Stadium Littoriale. As he rode away a youth darted from the crowd and fired point blank at Signor Mussolini. The bullet ripped away a piece of cloth from the Premier's coat, pierced the sash of the Grand Cordon of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus which he wore, grazed the sleeve of the Mayor of Bologna who sat at his side...
...they say that the boys dash in and eat and dash out again?" queried Joe, lifting the reporter's coffee-cup, and with one swoop of a cloth dispersing crumbs and other foreign substances on the table. "They cone in and they stand around and can't decide whether they want a sea-going or two black-and-tans and a large milk. And then they take their own time eating and when I come to take the dishes they aren't finished yet, and they hang on to the plates and hinder my work. And when they've finally...
...Milwaukee welcomed his brethren to the diocese in which "the first attempt at a religious order for men in the English Church after the Reformation was made"; the diocese which contains some of Anglo-Catholicism's earliest relics- the first stone altar, the first rood screen, a cloth-of-gold altar-cloth; the U. S. diocese in which high-church feeling is today most concentrated...
Three years ago Samuel Gompers journeyed to the American Federation of Labor convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 1, 1923, et seq.). His little cloth bunny was his mascot, a raggedy image of Uncle Remus' Br'er Rabbit whose nimble wits were so like Gomper's own. At that convention he was jubilant, declared: "On my honor as a man and as an adopted citizen of the United States,* with all sympathy for other people in their struggles toward realization of an ideal of freedom, I declare that I believe the Republic of the United States...
...What I want," said Mr. Jewett, "is 23 Harvard men to act as super pilgrims. I mean pilgrims that are supers, not especially good pilgrims. They've got to look good in sack cloth, and they must be able to sing, or at least chant...