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...Because the budget debate had not been completed with the last session (TIME, May 11, 18, June 8), the House went into committee on the budget. Premier Baldwin announced that the Government had decided to impose a 33 1/3% ad valorem duty on imported lace. A motion to that effect was accordingly introduced. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Laborite, asked whether the Government had conceived a grudge against women. "First it was silk, now it is lace." The motion was carried...
...applied arts, plumbing and heating were less stressed than in the U. S. exposition; rug-making, stained glass, lace, goldsmithery were glorified in bannered booths. Special pavilions were consecrated to French wines, French cookery. A lottery bond loan provided the funds for this national advertisement...
Saturday evening in the White House finds the President, his mouth full of pins, poring over old Fashion Books "Just a touch of lace at the throat," he suggests to Mrs. Coolidge, "white fur wristlets to go with your hat, and a small cretonne bustle in the back would add distinction to the ensemble. But, oh Grace, where did you get that scrumptions scarl...
...house. All the ships he could see from his window, spreading their intricate rigging against the New England sky, belonged to him. Eliphalet Greer was a lean and pious man; he had an ivory-headed stick and a great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected to the memory of one Richard Parton, Esq., his FORMER ASSOCIATE IN VENTURE OF TRADING, LOST...
...Cleveland, in four small rooms at the rear of the Reformed Seventh Day Adventist Mission, middle aged women and young girls congregated to watch the unrelenting minutes burrow into the future. They wore no lace, no ornaments, not even their wedding rings; they painted not, neither did they powder; for, said one: "The gates of Heaven are not open to the gaudy slaves of fashion...