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Bold indeed would a Cabinet member be to go on a summer holiday without his President's consent. Because President Hoover has continued to work through Washington's great heat, his Cabinet has remained dutifully by his side. In tropical garb-linen suits, white flannels, mohairs, panama hats, white shoes-they have trooped in and out of the White House to the semiweekly Cabinet meetings where they silently envied the President his cool quarters. When President Hoover fortnight ago publicly announced his intention to take his vacation this month in the Rocky Mountains, his official aides accepted that...
This reference was to the famed Twelve Orders "on women's immodest fashion of dress" issued by authority of Pope Pius XI some months ago to higher Catholic clergy throughout the world. Order No. 1 declares that "the parish priest . . . should insist, argue, exhort and command that feminine garb be based on modesty and that their ornament be a defense of virtue." Order No. 5 states that "headmistresses and teachers must not receive in their colleges and schools immodestly dressed girls, and should not even make an exception for the mothers of their pupils." Order...
...game itself is sort of a cross between soccer and football and the players dress in the garb of a soccer player. The ball used is similar to the oval of American football (in fact, that's what they're playing with on Soldiers Field right now). The ball is advanced for the greater part by carrying and passing at the same time, similar to the way it is done in touch football but one is allowed to tackle the runner--although interference is not allowed. The scoring system reminds one of the one that was in vogue in America...
Correspondents of long experience cabled that never before had they seen the present Supreme Pontiff show such intense emotion, or such iron self-control, as during the service. He appeared without many of the customary trappings of the Papacy, wore neither the triple tiara, nor the dazzling white Pontifical garb, but instead a simple cape and stole of scarlet...
...Last week the flying brush of an intently listening artist was still the swiftest means of bridging the ocean with the glow and glamor of the conference, the rich stained glass lights and solemn shadows of the fusty Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. There, in the simple garb of a gentleman, His Majesty George V, King and Emperor, Defender of the Faith, stood up with his Prime Minister at his elbow and solemnly pronounced open the Naval Conference of the Five greatest powers...