Word: frocks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches also announced that hereafter frock coats must be worn by Turkish officials at all government functions. Since the cost of such a garment aggregates nearly $175 in Angora, while the average monthly salary of a Turkish official is about $60, the Government has instituted special "pay as you wear" credit facilities...
Episcopal bishops from Haiti, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Illinois, in purple and white robes and violet birettas, a group of Army and Naval officers in uniform, and the speakers of the day-Elihu Root, Governor Smith, Sir Campbell Stuart-in high silk hats and sleek frock coats, followed a young crucifer and 100 Eton-collared choir boys in white surplices and purple cassocks up the aisle of the partly finished Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, to range themselves along the south wall, while Bishop William Manning, gripping his golden pastoral staff, accompanied by the more notable guests, mounted...
...with a fanfare and a crush which it has never equaled. For the first time there was standing room only and not enough of that in the Press Box. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was showered with bouquets. The Maharajah of Patralia (India) wore a blue turban, pink earrings, gold bracelets, frock coat. Senator Raoul Dandurand‡ of Canada was elected President of the present League Assembly (the 6th) on the first ballot and took up his duties; to the satisfaction of the Commonwealth because he is Canadian, to the delight of France because he is of French-Canadian descent. Said...
...easy to dishonor dead emperors; I leave all those, including William II, to the Socialist member, who I feel has no grounds to condemn a Communist for praising a Roman since he donned a frock coat to attend the Hindenburg inauguration...
...King was there at Hurlingham in white tall hat and gray frock coat...