Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sang, in a voice not very even, but bright and moving, the songs of the trouvères. For the rest he was thin, fastidiously jeweled, ingenuous rather than witty, and supremely gay. His father, Pietro Bernardone, a substantial citizen, was banner-bearer of the guild of the cloth merchants of Assisi...
They stood in the hallway of the bishop of their diocese-young Jack and Bernardone and the bishop. At their feet was a parcel of rich woven-stuffs, linen and cloth of gold, a silver altar cloth, a sword-belt. The bishop, brown and quiet, was explaining something, half-humorously, to Pietro Bernardone; the merchant seemed too angry to hear him. Had he ever denied his son anything? Why, Jack's friends called him Francis because of his rich ways. And now to turn thief. If Jack had asked he would have given him that bundle of gewgaws...
...Kioto was the capital of Japan. Laid out with mathematical precision 'in 793 by the Emperor Kwammu, the city is still replete with gorgeous temples and handsome public buildings. The city's remarkably pure water supply has made it the chief Japanese city for bleaching and dyeing cloth...
...body for a mile and a half from a Westbury funeral parlor to the Sikorsky hangar. Upon the coffin was the now obsolete flag of the Imperial Russian Navy under the Tsar. Upon this were the crossed sword and scabbard once belonging to Lieutenant Islamoff. Glistening from a verdant cloth at one end was the golden star and crescent of Islam. As his bier rested on the three burned-out Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors of the demolished plane, Mullah Hussan, a Mohammedan priest, read with tears in his eyes the funeral service from the Koran in a voice like "that...
...musical comedies and plays of the "Pigs" variety. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose! Boston is not a town where the theatre thrives. People here are evidently content with the bromides of the usual Boston musical comedy and the rapid evolutions of legs clad in cheese cloth...