Word: braided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chamber of Deputies to deliver his King's short speech. The Chamber was packed, and brilliantly. In the visitors' section sat beautiful Queen Farida, demure in a white veil; the jeweled wives of Egypt's aristocrats; diplomats in all their brocade; generals in all their braid. The King sat a few feet from the rostrum...
...Franco's brother-in-law, Ramón Serrano Suñer, recently made Foreign Minister after a visit to Berlin and Rome; Foreign Minister Ribbentrop; Field Marshals Brauchitsch and Keitel; significantly, the ghost writer of Hitler's pacts, Dr. Friedrich Gaus, and many other wearers of braid and jack boots...
...Reichstag. Now it awaited his first speech since before the invasion of the Low Countries, tried to guess his verdict: total war against Britain or negotiations for peace. Massed in the balcony were more than 100 of the Reich's generals and admirals, sparkling with decorations and gold braid (see p. 25). In the front row of the diplomatic box sat Italian Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano...
...united in a common dislike for a brown-skinned, fabulous figure who appeared on deck in a navy blue uniform, well loaded with gold braid and perfume: Harlem's Hubert Fauntleroy ("Black Eagle") Julian, who had previously distinguished himself by crashing the Emperor of Ethiopia's airplane. His critics on the Mathilda Thordén averred that Pilot Julian 1) had arrived in Finland 13 days after the war ended; 2) even if he was a commissioned captain (as he had Finnish papers to prove), he had no right to wear a Finnish military attache's uniform...
...heyday the Emperor Franz Josef liked to do things on schedule. At 4:30 in the morning three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens of Schonbrunn, slipped out through a secret gate, and presented himself at a little yellow cottage at Gloriette Road No. 9. There he was greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated...