Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hermann Göring, whose diamond-studded baton wound up in the White House last fortnight, lost his outsized pants to the Seventh Army.* Major General John W. ("Iron Mike") O'Daniel, 3rd Division commander, hung the Göring britches oh his wall, observed: "A lot of pants...
...Jimmy Doolittle flew his first Superfortress. Georgie Patton went to Sunday school; Carl Spaatz visited his 78-year-old mother (who told him: "You're just my baby boy"); leathery Alexander Patch brought back the gaudiest trophy yet: gewgawful Marshal Goring's diamond-studded marshal's baton...
Governor James H. ("Jimmie") Davis of Louisiana, backwoodsy singer-composer (You Are My Sunshine), found half an hour in his weekly gubernatorial schedule to take up where he left off when he turned statesman. Baton Route's radio station WJBO announced a regular Saturday night
...Baton Rouge...
Monty let them sit, another ten minutes, while he dressed for the occasion. He donned a freshly pressed battle jacket, with the marshal's baton woven on the shoulder tabs. A tiny gold watch chain stretched from pocket to pocket, under his decoration ribbons. The familiar black beret was at the usual jaunty angle. Monty strolled slowly to the tent where the Germans waited. As he passed the assembled war correspondents he said softly: "This is a very big moment...