Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Each copy of the Lampoon sold at the game today is to be securely enveloped in an oil-cloth cover, and no amount of the downpour common to such occasions will be able to penetrate its waterproof armament...
...king, who was traveling incognito in a light grey join cloth and modest brown sandals had the misfortune to be recognized everywhere he went. Fleeing at last in desperation to the Grand Central Station, he vanished like smoke. It is believed that by carrying his own luggage he disguised himself as a Pullman porter and is even now collecting small odd specimens of American gold to take back with him to the coast of Africa...
...good will. He, the Reverend William Wilkinson, "the Bishop of Wall Street," has made a daily appearance in the financial district at noon, when sky-assaulting buildings dribble out humanity, let it eddy about for an hour, and suck it in again. The Bishop, attired in the decent cloth of his office, taking station outside the Morgan office, the Sub-Treasury building, or the Stock Exchange, has harangued tolerant gatherings of bottle-nosed clerks, pasty runners for brokerage houses, gentlemen's stenographers...
...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...
Deep in the African jungle, the natives halted sharply, stiffened, passed the word. A leopard. Stalking began. Stewart Edward White was in the lead, in his hands a bow cut from the sturdy yew trees of California. The bow string was the length of the old cloth yard-27½ in., and it took 80 pounds of pulling power, and much skill to draw one of the 5½ -ft. steel-tipped arrows, also of yew, to the head of the bow. It was a clumsy thing, this bow, difficult to keep clear of the jungle undergrowth, not a thing...