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What the members of this Order wear is a modified Dominican habit. This consists of a tunic, fastened with a black girdle (having three knots at the ends, signifying the three-fold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience), a scapulary, and over all a mantle and hood. The indoor habit (with the exception of the girdle) is white. When a monk leaves the monastery he wears the outdoor habit, which is the same, save that its color is black. In cool weather he wears also a black cloak, and a black "fried-egg" hat, more common amongst English clergymen than...
...fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly's picture in Jack's tunic pocket-("Keep me with you, always, and I'll try to keep you safe"). Renouncing all Pythian affection Tom nearly slugged Jack, refused henceforth to speak to him. When Jack was wounded in the Big Drive, Tom was mortally injured in the act of rescuing him. Jack returned to Molly...
Roscoe Turner, lieut.-colonel in the Nevada National Guard, in a uniform of his own devising-horizon blue tunic. whipcord breeches, braid, boots, flying insignia-with a lion cub as supercargo, last week tried to surpass Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's recent swift flight across the continent (TIME, April 28).† Like Col. Lindbergh. Lieut.-Colonel Turner flew a Lockheed plane, but one more powerfully motored. Col. Lindbergh carried his wife as copilot. On her account he was obliged to make the flight as jarless as possible. That meant smoothly overcoming all air conditions, no excuses valid. They reached...
...engineer left his home, followed him at a distance until he disappeared in a neighboring wood. Hours later they found him. Dr. Hans Sattler had dug himself a trench, complete with parapet and dugout. They found him crouched on the fire step, wearing his faded blue lieutenant's tunic, still fighting the war, peering wildly into the night for ghostly Italian armies...
Fifteen years ago last week, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week...