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...novelty of performance. Admitting that the U. S. Military Academy would be a rather lofty standard to which the Harvard band should conform, still the performances of last week and the week before have only clinched the impression that an evolution is in order. Regardless of musical excellence, gold braid and epaulets with really snappy formations create an atmosphere that the sailor cap, sweater, and black tie somehow fail to achieve...
...first view of San Francisco was a graphic lesson in the value of a fire department. The town had just been burned out; most of the citizens lived in tents. Most of her time she spent about the San Francisco fire houses learning to polish nozzles, cut washers, braid drag ropes...
...Stephans-dom in the centre of the parish churches in the suburbs, all the bells of Vienna bonged out in Jubilee last week. A great glittering crowd had assembled in the sweeping crescent of the Heldenplatz before the former Imperial Palace. Hemmed in by glittering buttons and braid and feathers of the entire diplomatic corps, sat enthroned three scarlet-robed Cardinals and their Brother-in-God the Papal Legate from Rome. Bands played, a choir sang Schubert's Deutsche Messe and, grave with emotion, little Chancellor Dollfuss stepped forward and laid a wreath at the ornate bronze equestrian statue...
...reception reached a climax next day in a grand burst of Latin emotion. First the airmen, in white uniforms and glittering gold braid, were driven to the Quirinal to be greeted by the King. Then began a march on foot down Rome's new Via Trionfale (laurel-carpeted) beneath the Arch of Constantine, unused for such purpose since the ancient Romans paraded through it on returning from the wars. Up Palatine Hill the parade trooped, into the ruins of the Stadium where Il Duce awaited them in the modest uniform of a militia corporal. General Balbo stepped forward, received...
Students in the summer school who have had little chance to see Shaw will enjoy this selection in which the Irishman arrays his wit against war and heroics, and points out that gold braid does not change human nature. When Captain Bluntschil climbs into the heroine's boudoir he does so over the hood of the truck which at night is effectively disguised...