Word: bearskins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louder comes the music. A regiment with great bearskin hats, long coats, and polished boots swings in to view. They are followed by six matched horses hitched with gorgeous gilt trappings. On the blinkers are the tiny, polished letters "G. R." Behind the horses is a great gilt coach within which sits His Majesty the King. He is, as every one knows, on his way to open Parliament...
...Bull in Bearskin. Alarmed by figures as these, but angered more by faults he claims exist in the Federal Reserve system, a bull last week clad himself in a bearskin. It was no less a bull than William Crapo Durant who said: "With regret I make the prediction that we see next winter business conditions unimproved, longer breadlines, more soup kitchens, continued uneasiness and distress a more pronounced tendency to Social and Communism?this regardless of assurance from Washington that every thing is all right...
...Busby-Bearskin...
...Some weeks ago, TIME spoke of the Prince of Wales wearing a "Busby," as part of his uniform as Colonel of the Welsh Guards. Is not a bearskin, which is part of his uniform, quite different from a "Busby...
...British army circles the fur headgear worn by Edward of Wales as Colonel of the Welsh Guards is known as a busby. Bearskin is a permissible but not popular term for the same article. Other regiments that sport a busby (or bearskin) are those of all the Footguards, Fusiliers, Hussars and Royal Horse Artillery. As the Prince of Wales is also Colonel-in-Chief of the Royal Scots Fusiliers he is entitled to two busbies, each with different insignia...