Word: garments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Invidious passages: GENESIS XXXIX, 12: And she [Potiphar's wife] caught him [Joseph] by his garment saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment in her hand, and fled, and got him out. 13: And it came to pass, when she saw that he had left his garment in her hand, and was fled forth, 14: That she called unto the men of her house, and spake unto them, saying, See, he hath brought in a Hebrew unto us to mock us; he came in unto me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice...
...uninitiated persons the fashionable "kinetic theory" of M. Lelong seems to mean chiefly that he designs his dresses with full skirts to permit free leg movement. The French Government sent him to the U. S. in 1925 to report on the working conditions of women throughout the U. S. garment industry...
Came Ratu Popi Seniloli, Great Chief of Fiji, who yet takes orders from that greater chief, Sir Eyre Hutson, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Attired in a garment of woven bark (tapa), and resplendent in a necklace of polished whale's teeth,* Great Chief Ratu Popi presented the Duke with the tooth of a sperm whale...
...were approaching exhaustion, Mr. Davis suggested peace and got it. In the recent ten and a half months' Passaic textile strike, his attempts at settlement were few and futile. But there is not a single major strike now going on in the U. S.-the coal, railroad, Manhattan garment and Passaic strikes have all been settled in various ways. Who can say whether a Secretary of Labor with his fingers in every strike would be as happy today as Mr. Davis...
...Moreover let me say that the bill is chiefly an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities . .. yet I do not object, My Lords. It is only fair that, if the peccadillos of the lowly are covered by the tattered garment of obscurity, the indiscretions of the great should be screened by the ample robe of law. For my part I honestly consider the immbralities of all classes upon...