Word: homespuns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nephew. Purpose: to be on hand at the prospective birth of a grandchild. Manhattanites were talking about Raymond Duncan, eldest brother of the late Danseuse Isadora Duncan.- He arrived in their midst as Paris has known him for years-clad as an ancient Greek. Manhattan pedestrians gaped at his homespun toga, his sandals, his long-flowing, fillet-bound locks. Apostle...
Splendrous was the preliminary singing of a grand Te Deum in the National Cathedral at Bucharest, with the Patriarch of Rumania, bearded Miron Cristea, presiding in his twinkling medieval mitre. Lustily sang the new peasant Deputies and Senators, clad in immaculate white homespun blouses and white legging trousers. For them the Te Deum was a stately song of triumph. Good honest fellows-some could not forbear to skip a bit for joy as the procession moved from Cathedral to Parliament. There it was quickly seen how complete had been the triumph of Peasant Prime Minister Juliu Maniu at the Parliamentary...
...that verges easily into a sneer, a peculiar hypnotic stare, and a pantherlike bound are other useful attributes of Comrade Krylenko. On the first day of the Shahkta Trial he strode in wearing what U. S. citizens would call a hunting costume: khaki coat and breeches, soft roll collar, homespun stockings, hobnail shoes. To be sure all Russians present in the Hall of Columns were roughly attired; but Hunter Krylenko's costume seemed significant. Within a few hours he had wrung confessions from three small-fry technicians which should set them before a firing squad, and ever since...
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin betook his homespun, sterling self to Manchester, last week, and spoke words of chastening counsel. Addressing a potent luncheon group of Lancashire cotton tycoons he pointedly intimated that the capital structures of many of their firms are topheavy and must be scaled down. As he often does, Mr. Baldwin took his text from the iron & steel industry which is the basis of his family fortune, and spoke with a certain rugged candor thus: "I am going with my own trade, the steel trade, through deep waters. Most of what I had was in that industry...
...circumstance in which they are uttered. Example-"Too proud to fight." Had that not been attributed to Wilson at just one critical moment in our history it would have had no more power than any other group of four words. I admire Prime Minister Baldwin for his homespun virtues, and I rejoice at his steady political good luck-but I consider him a weak, not a powerful, speaker. That this is not set down in malice, you may judge from the fact that I have received only this morning the chance knowledge that a certain brand of tobacco is that...