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...economic situation is appalling. Prices are much higher than in 1914 and wages much lower. No fine clothes are seen on the streets. Women are buying only gabardine suits and such things as are calculated to wear forever. The streets are positively crowded with beggars, a new phenomenon for Germany...
...demonstration of the policy of repressing every liberty pursued by the present Government." While rain and hailstones swept over Milan, Piacenza, Mantua, Novara and Brescia - Bergamo and Verona experienced, for the first time in memory, a Summer snowstorm. The Italian Tyrol was so cold that people were forced to wear furs. Throughout northern Italy the rivers and lakes overflowed, causing much damage to crops. The Italian ex-Servicemen's Association ended its annual Congress by promising support to Benito on condition that he fulfill his promise to pacify the country and reform the illegalities practiced by the Fascist extremists...
...journeyed to London to converse with King George and to thank him for the benefits of 50 years of British rule. They said that the King expressed great pleasure that the people of Fiji were happy and contented; they added: "The King asked us what sort of clothes we wear in Fiji. Did we wear the European dress that we were wearing at the moment? We explained that at home we wear loin cloths reaching to the knee and, of course, have bare head and feet." In the grounds of Buckingham Palace, King George and Queen Mary gave a Garden...
...first Brownies capered and grimaced; after that the magazine rarely appeared without them. Remarkable creatures they were, about an inch high; their bodies were uncouth but agile ? spindle-shanked, with rotund small bellies; they had pendulous cheeks, tiny eyes and huge mouths, capable of infinite expression. They could wear any clothes with an odd look, but their noirmal garb was doublet and hose, worn with a tasseled cap peculiar to their order...
...Paris, Paul Poiret, famed dressmaker, declared modern male fashions "disgusting," "unmentionable," "like sausages," "like notaries," suggested for day wear in Summer "loose garments made of light materials which would feel as if they did not exist . . . trousers of an ethereal cut; for the evening, huge velvet capes that would fall into graceful folds...