Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton, presented him as a "Missionary of peace and harmony among Nations...
...patent attorney for Mr. Edison), Robert L. Cutting (Manhattan banker), Ernesto Fabbri (Italian-born Morgan partner) and his brother, Egisto Fabbri (shipping), S. B. Eaton (Manhattan lawyer), William H. Meadowcroft (Thomas Edison's confidential secretary), Jose D' Navarro (builder of Manhattan's first elevated railway), J. Hood Wright (Morgan partner) and Norvin Green (President of Western Union Telegraph) became actively interested in Inventor Edison's new project. Many of them were trustees of the first Edison Electric Light...
Head Usher Irwin Hood Hoover of the White House warmly greeted the young man whom he well remembered as Archie Roosevelt...
...with glee. Some 150 prominent Fascists, members of the Royal Automobile Club, had mo tored down from Milan to assist at the presentation to Pope Pius of a second new and sumptuous limousine (TIME, May 6). Senator Silvio Crespi, as President of the Club, raised the automobile's hood and briefly pointed out to His Holiness such mysterious gadgets as spark plugs, dual carburetors. Lastly came the scene which delighted cartoonists. Facing Pope Pius, all the 150 motorists simultaneously executed the Fascist salute, right arms upraised and ex tended rigidly at a 45° angle. While they stood thus...
...occupant of the business office by Raymond Mathewson Hood of Manhattan may look out on sooty roofs, but he will see them through a huge, tinted window with dim floral designs in the glass. The staunch desk is metallic, L-shaped, with a built-in clock...