Word: sashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock Sunday morning, the guests settled themselves in the Capitol's Hall of Congress to see Gallegos take over. From his predecessor, Rómulo Betancourt (who had held office as provisional President since the revolution of 1945), Gallegos received the yellow, blue and red presidential sash, took the oath of office. Then the party moved over to the north wing...
...arrival of Great Britain's Lord Inverchapel and his lady caused a perceptible flurry. The Inverchapels were divorced in 1945, remarried last August. This was their first appearance at an official White House reception since then. Inverchapel was in white tie and sash. His blonde Chilean-born lady wore an eye-filling strapless gown embroidered in silver sequins...
Last week, after many miners had told him they wanted to work, the priest-mayor decided to take action. He collected a group of miners, wrapped a tricolor sash around his waist, and advanced on the pit heads. They were met by hundreds of Communists and hangers-on (only a few of them local people) who had armed themselves with clubs. After a short scuffle the Abbé Lorent's forces withdrew. "I wanted to avoid bloodshed," he said...
Last night, in a dress rehearsal of the greatest social event of the decade, Hughes wore a black robe with white sash and a pair of spats over his patent eather bedroom slippers...
...Sash Me Father Wore." TIME'S correspondent last week attributed the relative quiet of the celebration to "the desire of the Ulster Government to maintain the status quo, and to the shortage of whiskey." July 12, 1947 in Belfast was not entirely dry, however. As the parade made the turn by the block-long Arcadia Bar, many marchers took a short cut and a pint of Guinness, and joined the parade again as it stomped along singing The Sash Me Father Wore (which was orange, of course...