Word: braiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gaudiest robe of the lot-a dark gown almost armored with gold braid-draped awkwardly on the huge round shoulders of the Chancellor of Bristol University. Winston Churchill. Near him, in the scarlet and salmon pink gowns of doctors of law, stood Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies of Australia and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant...
Last week Northwestern started its third class (850 candidates), the Prairie State was polishing up its third (500), Annapolis its first (703). Already graduated from the schools and bright with new gold braid were 1,776 new ensigns, some already assigned to service, some waiting at home for assignment. Commissioned in the Naval Reserve, the best of these mustangs (Navy for non-Annapolis officers) will have a crack at regular commissions in the Navy by meeting the Navy's qualifications after one year of sea service. In the long run, as Admiral Nimitz predicted, some of them may even...
...that ordinary times would end. The decks, already a clutter of unusual activity, would be cleared for action. Even the passengers knew that this was no Caribbean pleasure cruise. They looked at Sailorman Roosevelt, whistling and polishing away so cheerfully, as if they knew that he could wear gold braid and bark commands if he wanted to-as if he might, when the time came. There had been rumors in the First Class that guns were being run out, that there might soon even be a shortage of butter in the dining saloon...
...splendor of its full-dress regalia (see cut) is produced by a combination of Wellington boots, buckskin breeches, blue blouses with silver buttons, yards of braid, bearskin-topped helmets. For the annual formal banquets in its Armory, the Troop (now Troop A, 104th Reconnaissance Regiment) has its own china and silver (made for its 100th anniversary in 1874), adorned with its helmet and sabretache...
...unroofed south side of the platform were gathered the House members; on the unroofed north, the Senate. Under the roof on its eight, paint-wet, wooden Corinthian columns the Supreme Court was ranked, in formal robes; behind the Court the Cabinet, behind them the Diplomatic Corps, brave with braid. At the very front-&-centre stood the little podium, weedy with microphones. Close at hand stood the President's mother in a black hat, a black coat with silver-fox collar, and his wife, in a black broadtail coat and black hat with a feather. On the other side, reflectively...