Word: silk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pierce glided in through the Golden Gate from the Orient. Whistles screamed. Bands blared. Flags flew. Warped into Pier 44, she was quickly boarded by octogenarian Shipowner Robert Dollar who hurried about looking for an erect, spare, tropic-tanned man. He found him on deck, carrying a tightly rolled silk umbrella, and gave him a tremendous handshake which carried with it the welcome of the whole U.S. The browned voyager was none other than Henry Lewis Stimson, returning from the post of Governor-General of the Philippines to become number one man in President Hoover's Cabinet...
...remain invalid, an Imperial Conference will have to be called to settle the Crown Council Question beyond possibility of Irish cavil. Early in the week, several of the 22 subjects designated Knights in the delayed New Year's honors list tingled at the thought of kneeling in silk breeches to be dubbed (smacked between the shoulder blades) by the naked sword of Edward of Wales acting for George V. These ceremonies were postponed to allow the Prince to represent King George at Marshal Foch's funeral...
England is nicer in lots of ways than Mexico, so much nicer that last week the civilian leader of the latest Mexican Revolution, Senor Don Gilberto Valenzuela, must have devoutly wished himself back at the Court of St. James's, strutting again in silk knee breeches with a cordon across his chest as Mexican Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary. Instead he was desperately striving in the state of Sonora, first to bolster up civilian support for the army of his chief-of-staff, General Gonzalo Escobar, and second with the forlorn project of despatching to President Herbert Hoover a request...
...will make no exceptions,'' ran the General's order to the superintendents, "in enforcing the inflexible rule that girls wearing short skirts or silk stockings or using either lipstick or powder are not allowed to enter any public school...
...Though silk raising is one of the most important industries of Japan, most Japanese wear cotton. The kimonos of the lower classes are cotton, so are their underclothes, socks. In years gone by, when a Japanese wore holes in his socks or damaged his kimono irretrievably, he simply threw it away. Not so now, said a last week's despatch from the U. S. Department of Commerce. In 1923 Japan sent to the U. S. 4,432,000 pounds of discarded kimonos, underclothes, trousers, and so forth, to be reclaimed, and the Japanese ragbag has grown to such colossal...