Word: braids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec change the pattern? There were a few hopeful signs, mostly on the military side. Great strategic decisions were obviously made. The baronial, turreted pile of the Chateau Frontenac, famed old Quebec hotel where conference advisers lived, was so full of gold braid that the eyes of bellhops and chambermaids were dazzled. Rumor said that colonels were sleeping two to a room...
...residence, a modern house in suburban surroundings with tennis court and a golf course near by, he entertains all kinds of people at large and frequent parties. Eaker is a thoughtful host who not infrequently will pay more attention to a. U.S. lieutenant awed by the gold braid of air marshals than to the air marshals themselves...
When General Henri HonoréGiraud, his white uniform crinkled, stepped out of the giant C-54 transport at Washington's Bolling Field last week, his squinting eyes focused on a shimmering collection of silver stars and gold braid. Generals and admirals were there in profusion to greet him on his arrival from North Africa-but nary a striped pants diplomat or even a State Department functionary on routine protocol...
...last Alnav certainly did brighten up things around here. The new gold braid is really blinding...
...Army actors were ready to give the five one-acters, written by Army men, which had recently tickled Broadway on a one-night stand. Settling down for the show, Franklin D. Roosevelt grinned back at Queen Wilhelmina of The Netherlands, Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, Vincent Astor and assorted gold braid. The President shed his coat, advised others to do the same. The third play was a well-sustained gag by First Class Private Irving Gaynor Neiman about a barracks butt who was kidded into thinking that Myrna Loy was coming to see him. In Broadway's version the kidders...