Word: sash
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...construction, we should have to abandon the board measure and substitute square decimeters, centares or ares. Doors which are familiar to all builders as 2 ft. 8 in. by 6 ft. 8 in. become 762 by 2,032 millimeters. An ordinary brick 51 by 101 millimeters. The sizes of sash also are converted into strange units. All architect's drawings will be in new units, involving a most perplexing conversion of current building material units or made upon a system that will involve changes in all woodworking machinery to meet metric units...
Without becoming lurid, it may be baldly stated that no less than nine major revolutions and at least a score of minor revolts have been put down during the ten odd years in which Señor Leguía has worn the presidential sash of Peru. The old semifeudal, politico-military aristocracy has resisted long and bitterly the dominance of Leguía, admittedly a champion of the middle class, of industrialism, and even of the aboriginal Indians of Peru, who have been exploited immemorially by the landed descendants of the Spanish conquerors...
...Story. At the end of this book, two portraits hang in an old city house. Out of one frame, in white muslin and blue sash, looks a beguiling red-headed Civil War nurse as she was just before she sacked an Italian count, married an ardent young mechanic and quit her patroon relatives to live in the young West...
...support. Eaton, "The Hero of Derne," his fame on every tongue but his hour over, returned to the U. S. At first, millions listened to his story. It became gradually harder to find friendly souls; Hero Eaton found most of them among tipplers. In a big sombrero and Turkish sash, he drank himself to death in the taverns of Richmond...
There, they beheld anthologies in oils, signed by Fry. A tree from Watteau, a sash from Cezanne, a tilted corner from Guy Pene Du Bois?second-hand oddments tumbled from the artistic property-trunk that is Mr. Fry's memory. Brave among them was a portrait of Lytton Strachey. His beard was dank, red, hedged, jowl and cheek; clammy were his hands; unkissed, unblessed, looked this great author. Students, painters, gazed upon him, went away muttering about the Fire, the Frying...