Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...papal tailor anounced his readiness to supply the new cardinals with capes of ermine, red silk trains 25 feet long, garments of red wool, birettas, skull caps, great hats, stockings, slippers. Also, the violet garment to be worn in conclave. Also the black garment with red borders for street wear...
...give the stamp of the American character. Nothing human was alien to him, and he had 'the divine gift of sympathy.' He wrought mightily for the prosperity of the Nation and for the peace of the world, but he clothed the exercise of power with the beautiful garment of gentleness. If American life with all its possibilities of conflict and turmoil is to be worth living it must be lived in the spirit of brotherly understanding of which he will ever be an exemplar in high office...
...made a call on President Coolidge, leaving my overcoat, as is the custom of presidential callers, in Secretary Slemp's room. Newspapers reported that, coming out, I 'walked jauntily away' with the ulster of Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, little noting the spacious effect the garment gave me until I encountered 'strange articles' in the pockets. Retracing my steps, I encountered Henry Cabot Lodge, III, my grandson, whilom Harvard student, now a reporter on the Boston Transcript. But I refused to grant him an interview...
...embryonic labor leaders will return to the following unions: the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the United Mine Workers, the Coopers' Union, the Association of Machinists, the Amalgamated Food Workers, the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, the Union of Postal Workers of Great Britain...
William Z. Foster's weakness for rhetoric. Besides being profane, he compares Mr. Taft's judicial garment to Mussolini's shirt...