Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which was at first an undershirt to keep the cold-blooded monks and abbots warm and, to be proper, must still be worn with the alb. It has long, loose, open sleeves, a gathered yolk at the neck, and drops to the knees like the skin of a ribless umbrella. Stole. A narrow strip of embroidered work nine or ten feet long and about three inches wide. A stole supposedly tallies with its alb in design and coloring. The Bishop of London wears his stole between his alb and his tunicle. The spangles across his chest supply the illusion...
...wounds). Advertisers, art-goods makers, bag-makers, bankers, butter, egg, and dairy firms; chain stores, crockery companies, cloak and suit houses; the dental, the funeral, the grocery, the hosiery, the laundry, millinery, musical and neckwear trades; opticians, pawnbrokers, petticoat cutters, physicians, rubber-goods makers, rabbis, underwear and umbrella manufacturers - all were appraised for definite amounts, all came near to filling their quotas...
Next day, slouching beneath an umbrella, Hagen defeated "Wild Bull" Melhorn, 6 up and 5 to go, won for the third successive time the U. S. professional golf championship...
...Krim is of course not eligible for a royal title, that honor being confined according to Muhammadan law to direct descendants of the Prophet. It seems unlikely that he desires in any way to undermine the spiritual authority of Mulai Yusef who sits in the shade of the Shereefian Umbrella at Rabat or at his other capitals. But he undoubtedly does resent any interference with the internal affairs of the Riff country and, provided that is assured to him with adequate boundaries as a guarantee, he may well become as good a Shereef as the Empire can boast...
...presence was noticed, horny hands seized him and raucous voices yelled: "Throw him in the river." The 77-year-old begaitered and silk-hatted gentleman was rushed toward the river. Cooler heads, however, came to his rescue, after which the Bishop merely commented: "I lost my new hat and umbrella...