Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...charity ball for the Children's Hospital, at the New Willard Hotel, the first event of the kind at which they have been present. On the left of the Presidential box was Secretary Mellon; on the right, Secretary of State and Mrs. Hughes. Mrs. Coolidge wore "gold cloth brocaded in a flower pattern of Persian colors...
...retaliatory protest. But the reader cannot quite escape a not unpleasant tingle of tremulous anticipation observing the trustful juxtaposition of P. T. Barnum and James J. Hill, or Admiral Dewey at bay between Jesse James and Brigham Young. Among the seven names represented between the strenuous cloth covers are one woman (Frances E. Willard); one capitalist (J. J. Hill); one sailor (Dewey); one politician (Mark Hanna); one showman (Barnum); one Latter-day Saint (Young); one bandit (James...
...Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" David Belasco, occult archimage of the theatre, has muttered incantations over an ancient artifice and whisked away the curtain cloth to disclose it as a new play of absorbing intensity. Fausto Martini's "Ridi, Pagliaccio" (Italian) is the source; the story is that of Punchinello...
...specific purpose of the new mill will be to manufacture the cloth backing for the artificial leather used in Ford cars...
Died. Robert Threshie Reid, Baron Loreburn, 77, at Deal, England. He was Lord Chancellor of England, 1905-1912. In 1907 he visited Canada the first Lord Chancellor to leave England while in office since Cardinal Wolsley accompanied Henry VIII to France to the Field of Cloth of Gold...