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Sumo matches are announced by an official in black silk who holds a fan in front of his nose while he squeaks the names of the contestants. When sumo champions retire they have their long hair cut, sit behind the four pillars that surround the ring, act as judges in disputes. Chief referee in all sumo championship matches is Okiaze Yoshida, whose position has been hereditary in his family for 23 generations...
Dining with Queen Mary, her sons and the Archbishop of Canterbury, the royal doctors wore full court dress, gold buttons with the royal crest gleaming on their tail coats above their velvet knee breeches, silk stockings and glistening pumps. A little later His Majesty was found to be beyond hope. With streaming eyes, the Queen and her sons stood at the bedside as George V expired in coma. Turning to the eldest son, Lord Dawson of Penn solemnly made the historic change known. "Your Majesty," he said, "your father is dead...
...well as Conservative Justices took a hand at questioning him. Asked Conservative Justice McReynolds: ''Who fixed the [processing] tax, Mr. Solicitor?" "Congress fixes the formula," Mr. Reed read aloud the language of the law. "The farmer buys all sorts of things," snorted Mr. Justice McReynolds. "He buys silk stockings and woolen coats. Which is it that controls...
Stakhanovite Celebrations. Workers of the World may not agree that the speed-up of Alexei Stakhanov is a good thing for the proletariat, but they unite in applauding the medals and the motor car Dictator Stalin has given Stakhanov, the silk lingerie and perfume he bought in Moscow for his wife. Individual Stakhanovites all receive fabulously high pay -the question suspiciously asked by Soviet workers being how long such exaggerated wages will be paid after any great number of workers have been induced to speed up. Afraid that "Stakhanovism" is in fact a continent-wide swindle of the proletariat...
Arriving in Washington on the first lap of a crowded itinerary mapped out by his host, the Protestant Episcopal Church, Dr. Temple stepped off the train carrying two umbrellas, was met by Bishop James Edward Freeman, resplendent in silk topper. In the National Cathedral on Sunday, the Archbishop spoke into a microphone...