Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the tradition that not even the King may enter the City of London without permission of The Lord Mayor was ceremoniously upheld. The royal carriage stopped for a moment just outside the site of the ancient City Wall?indicated last week by a red silken cord. Pompously My Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Albert Batho, approached, clad in his robes of ermine and crimson velvet, heavy with his golden chains of office. Respectfully yet proudly he tendered to His Majesty the Sword & Keys of the City. Graciously George V touched both, symbolizing that he accepted the permission...
Meanwhile, at Barwaha, the nuptials had been completed by the ceremony of withdrawing a veil from between the lovers, a fire ceremony, and a rite which consisted in winding around the bodies of the bride and bridegroom a single symbolic, yellow cord. Lastly, the wedded couple descended from their marriage pavilion into the open and called to witness that they are man and wife some 500 wedding guests and the Stars, Moon...
...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...undergraduate, whose coat should be "black-mixed, single breasted, with a rolling cape square at the end, and with pocket flaps: waist reaching to the natural waist, lapel of the same length; skirts reaching to the bend of the knee; three crows-feet, made of black silk cord, on the lower part of the sleeve of a Senior, two on that of the Junior, and one on that of a Sophomore. The pantaloons of black mixed or of black bombazet, or when of cotton or linen fabric of white. There must not be more than eight or less than...
While reading to President Calles President Coolidge wore, instead of his familiar black-rimmed spectacles, a shiny new gold pince-nez with long black cord. Observers realized that the change would not necessitate the striking of a new Coolidge medal,* since eyeglasses are not a frequent enough accessory to the Coolidge features. He wears them only when reading...