Word: braided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down, down, down he fell, and when he landed gently he was on the platform of a great hall in 1944. Before him a rousing parade was in progress. At its head, astride the White Horse, rode Representative Hamilton Fish, magnificent in khaki and gold braid. The White Horse was walking backward. Next came Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson and "Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each...
Every now & then, plain U.S. citizens get carried away by the superior gold braid of other nations. The U.S. Navy, which to civilian eyes has a fair amount of gold braid of its own, is not immune to such rankophilia. After brooding over the glittering top rank of the British armed forces -13 Field Marshals, ten Admirals of the Fleet, four Marshals of the R.A.F.-Secretary Knox asked Congress to authorize the rank of Admiral of the Fleet for U.S. forces...
Picture Editor Dana Tasker says admirals are just about the hardest cover subjects - because oceans and battleships and gold braid look so much alike. Washington figures are also apt to be difficult. For example, how would you go about signalling the news significance of U.S. Economic Dictator James F. Byrnes for flash recognition...
...nation's 20,000,000 dogs as possible into an honorary K-9 Home Guard. For $1, a contributor's dog receives the rank of private or seaman, and so on upwards. Some Park Avenue generals or admirals ($100) may go so far as to have gold braid sewed on their strolling jackets, but officially each Home Guard K-9 of whatever rank receives the same insignia: a paw print on a celluloid collar-tag. Among the hundreds of generals is Mrs. Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen's miniature poodle, Ch. Fitter Patter of Pipers-croft, who outshone...
Warsaw nightclubs, while doing his military service in a Polish Cavalry Regiment designed his own uniform of pure white with gold braid and buttons. One night, while a guest in one of his self-decorated nightclubs, he was approached by a captain who had been instructed by a major at another table to ask Topolski what uniform he was wearing. Answered Topolski: "My own." The major was amused and ordered Topolski to take it off. But the captain whispered that Topolski would not be court-martialed if he did not. Says Topolski: "I didn...