Word: clothings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beneath the ruins of the Cloth Hall at Ypres, in the last, gloomy days of 1914, sat an old soldier on a white horse : Field Marshal Sir John French, tears streaming down his face, watched the remnants of the "Old Contemptibles" (Regular Army) file past him after their place in the fighting line had been taken by the territorials (Home Defense Force which volunteered almost to a man for service abroad). Last week, Death carried off this famous soldier in his 73d year. He died of complications arising from an operation for appendicitis performed last March. Little more than...
...gave him a prodigious welcome and a great display of African wealth. From Seccondee, a visit was made to the hinterland of Ashanti where "talking drums"* beat out salutes. Ashanti chiefs presented him with a gold sword, a gold stool (emblem of sovereignty), a gold umbrella and a cloth of gold. A mighty oath of allegiance to the British crown was sworn in the name of the Ashantis on the sword; the umbrella was marked "Yokoma" (King of Cloths), the cloth "Okoasa" (no more wars...
...hold of a liner emerged two Russian Jews. Mr. and Mrs. Baline, landed in Manhattan, bearing with them a cloth-wrapped bundle, now Irving Berlin. At five, the child hawked papers in the Bowery. One day, a crane knocked him into the East River. When he was rescued, the ambulance surgeon found, still clutched in the minute Baline hand, five coppers, his day's takings...
Seventy miles off San Pedro, Calif., targets simulated an enemy fleet. Above them at 6,000 feet coursed real airplanes which trailed behind them great cloth funnels to be used as targets...
...Capitol. A dozen cars carrying the Congressional Inaugural Committee, Cabinet members, aids, etc., lined up in the White House driveway. The President and the Vice President emerged from the White House and paused to be photographed. Mrs. Coolidge appeared in a modish ensemble suit of moonstone gray, "joseema" cloth (a sort of cross between duvetyn and kasha), with a gray fox collar. Her hat was likewise gray with a trimming of burnt goose feathers...