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...Very Rev. William Foxley Norris, Dean of Westminster. Coronation year was his year. The Abbey is Dean Norris' parish church; he was as responsible for the ecclesiastical details of last week's ceremony as the Duke of Norfolk was. for the civil. In copes of gold (woven for the Coronation of Charles II) his humblest prebendaries had places in the Abbey procession, while most of the Bishops of Britain, many of them Lords, sat in scarlet & white on the sidelines...
...years ago, government officials, realizing the old boy to be something of a menace to paleface citizens-he carried a long knife and was somewhat irascible-enclosed a part of his land with a high, man-proof, woven-wire fence and put him inside. A comfortable house was built for him and an Indian man and wife were employed to care for him. At first, he resented his caretakers, running them off the place with the knife and he absolutely refused to sleep in the house. When he became slightly more reconciled, an elaborate teepee was built...
...No.1 U. S. rubber company as late as 1925. Whittling the company's debt of $81,000,000 to $53,233,000, Rubberman Davis consolidated operations, modernized tire-making methods, pushed other rubber products, went in for Lastex, a patented, elastic spun yarn which is knitted or woven into such things as sweaters, girdles, slipcovers...
...unique significance in the field of English letters there can be no doubt. Its phraseology has become part and parcel of our common tongue--bone of its bone and flesh of its flesh. Its rhythms and cadences, its turns of speech, its familiar imagery, its very words, are woven into the texture of our literature, prose and poetry alike. Yet it is of the Orient, we of the West; it is a translation, not an original; and it has reached us by way, not of one language only, but of three. What is it, then, in this translation, which...
Boiling mad at this Japanese-British sharp practice, M.P.'s demanded that His Majesty's Government bring in a bill to deprive of Imperial preference any cloth which is not British-woven-from-British- made-thread-and-British-finished...