Word: braids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director José Ferrer plunges bravely into the mess at the point where Actor Jose Ferrer, who plays the hero, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, is sitting at his desk in the Ministere de la Guerre. He is a braid-proud artillery officer assigned to operations and marked with the uncomfortable distinction of being the first Jew ever elevated to the French General Staff. Meanwhile, over at the German embassy, another French officer, one Major Esterhazy, is making arrangements to supplement his army pay with German gold, for which he is ready to betray French military secrets. When one of Esterhazy...
...take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead was a broker (Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training." He compensates for this deficiency by soaking his gold braid in brine whenever the green seems to be wearing off, and by declaring loud and often, in peculiarly defective sailor-Latin ("You're getting my bilge up!"), that a P.R.O. does just as much...
...person." He even smells stylish, slathering on Fabergé cologne so liberally that it lingers on long after he leaves the room. He owns 40 pairs of shoes (at $60 a pair), 70 suits, once had Saks make up four "cocktail suits" (at $250 apiece) in white with blue braid, white with black braid. "I didn't wear them," grins George. "People would think I was eccentric...
...fell quiet. From the south end of the hall, the legal pageant of Britain began to emerge and debouch onto the stone steps that formed a stage-judges of the High Court of Justice in ermine-trimmed scarlet; Lords of Court of Appeal in black knee breeches and gold-braided gowns; Lord Goddard, 80 years old, Lord Chief Justice, wearing an extra S-shaped band of gold braid. Trainbearers, bearers of the standard and the mace, each entered and took an appointed place. Lord Kilmuir, the Lord High Chancellor, draped amid flowing robes, impassive under a full-bottomed wig, came...
...delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...