Word: braids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quality of American newness" into his canvases. He thumbed over mail-order catalogues to get every detail of his farm machinery just right. He exchanged the blurred-landscape technique of the Impressionists for an almost photographic preoccupation with homely detail: the designs of wire fences, overall seams, the rickrack braid on Iowa farm dresses. Some of his pictures (Daughters of Revolution, Dinner for Threshers, Arbor Day) became almost as famous as his American Gothic...
Soft-voiced Chief Harman E. Guthcim, his uniform glittering with braid, is a lay as any Harvard professor who makes bi-weekly trips to Washington. He has been working steadily with the various local defense boards to coordinate his department with others in case of air raids. "Pretty soon we may call out some of you fellows as volunteers," he said somewhat doubtfully. "We'll need about four hundred ready to work on the College buildings in case of a bombing." Turning towards a cigar-smoking clerk, he added: "That is, if we can depend on 'em. They think everything...
...story. Navy Day is the birthday of another fighting Roosevelt, who worked hard to build up U.S. power on the sea. It was this day that Franklin Roosevelt picked. In the vast Gold Ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, flanked by Generals and by Admirals in gold braid, the President told how it came about that the U.S. is now fighting...
...spin a yarn about the time he was goin' down to Chequers to visit Winnie Churchill. He'd just been made a full admiral and he was standin' in a railway station wearin' his brand-new uniform. Bein' on the smallish side, the gold braid on his sleeve reached near up to his elbows. A soldier come up to him and says: 'Excuse me, could you tell me what time the train for So-and-so leaves?' Old Splash Guts drew himself up and looked at him. 'Excuse me,' he says...
...heard the Kaiser's words was a U.S. journalist, William Bayard Hale of the New York Times. They were aboard the imperial yacht Hohenzollern, at anchor in the fjord of Bergen, Norway, one July evening in 1908, and the Kaiser stalked the deck in the gold braid of an Admiral of the German High Seas Fleet. He spoke English, in which he was fluent, and sometimes he leaned close to his interviewer and lowered his voice confidentially, sometimes he raised his one good arm and shook his forefinger under Hale's nose. Hale suppressed that interview, which...