Word: knees
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most men has Dean Inge. As a Cathedral Dean he wears four frogged buttons on his cuff There are six buttons on his cutaway coat. His waistcoat-apron buttons down the side. His legs must be encased in gaiters which button all the way up, ending well above the knee...
...more attention than the blazing massive diamonds on Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...Passfield Corner" (after his estate in Hampshire). Unfamiliar with his new position and decidedly uncomfortable in it seemed Sidney Webb, last week, as he entered the House of Lords and went through the ceremony of becoming a peer. It made him feel even more uncomfortable than the silk knee-breeches he used to have to wear when, as President of the Board of Trade (1924), he waited on King George. A heavy scarlet robe covered his gnomelike figure. An ermine collar, seeming to grow out of his greyish-white Vandyke beard, lay hot and moist about his neck. A black...
...sculptors, scientists and occasionally statesmen, warriors. Every October the 200 members assemble and occupy their armchairs in the great Renaissance hall of the College Mazarin to assert their own dignity and listen to the learned speeches of their colleagues. Each member owns an elaborate Napoleonic costume, of tail coat, knee breeches, white-plumed cocked hat and sword. But despite all the formalities and trappings of membership, Institut de France no longer receives the respect from French artists which its age* and dignity warrant. It is frequently hinted that many members of the Institut are elected for political reasons; some...
John David, New York chain store clothier, laid the cornerstone of gala headquarters last week, gave dress prophecies. He envisioned men bare-legged from ankle to knee, wearing roomy shorts instead of trousers, porous and mesh materials, vivid sandals, formal attire of silk or satin knee breeches, cutaway coat, colored waistcoat, buckled shoes...