Word: skirtings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror of the Sun Goddess, Japan's holiest relic; the Ancestor's shrine...
...maneuverings of lady's skirt...
...high, with a wooden chalet roof, was built by the Count de Maaroes and stands on a site first used by Joseph Fouché, Duke of Otranto, Napoleon's Minister of the Interior. From the terrace on which he was sitting the ground tapered away into a shadowy skirt of pines, cedar, lindens he had laid out himself - the park. With his Polish land sold, now that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With...
...disturbed the Royal homecoming. Crown Princess Astrid of the Belgians, Their Majesties' Swedish daughter-in-law, was flayed last week, by a fanatically Roman Catholic news organ, Le Vingtieme Siècle. Wrote its Priest-Editor: "A recent photograph of Her Royal Highness shows her seated, with the skirt somewhat above the knees. The radiant beauty of the Princess aroused sufficient admiration in itself without the addition of such a piece of trivial daring. The example coming from the throne, or even the steps of the throne, is the most substantial bar that can be opposed to shameless fashions...
...penetrating glance from a young woman standing on the steps of the New York Public Library. Having glanced, she probably made a mark in the notebook she held in her hand. She may have noted the color of your stockings, the cut of your suit, the length of your skirt, the shape of your hat. You had become a statistic...