Word: braids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full day at Whitehall I saw only one soldier, a major who had been there since 1966, who evinced any enthusiasm for what he was doing. He looked like a soldier on leave in a June Allyson Korean War movie-crew cut, perfectly pressed uniform, shiny black shoes, braid on his shoulders and ribbons on his chest. He said things like "Chow will be at 1:00 sharp, men," and "When you receive your orders, proceed to your assignment, on the double." He was an anachronism, even there...
...Beard and the Braid, Drawings of Cambridge...
...introduction to her newest collection of watercolor drawings, The Beard and the Braid, Barbara Westman promises to show us "pictures of different worlds called Cambridge." And since the book's jacket further explains that Miss Westman is herself a current resident of this city, one looks for a sympathetic treatment of the often antithetical communities that provide Cambridge with its constant tension and occasional vitality. But what do we get? Dunster House, quite early on a spring morning. The corner of Mt. Auburn and Holyoke Streets. The Lampoon. The Episcopal Theological School and the Busch-Reisinger Museum, inside...
Meanwhile, as for Barbara Westman, she's on a perpetual Crimson Key trip, and, if The Beard and the Braid is any indication, it doesn't look as if she's coming down for quite a spell...
...south portico of the White House last week, he may have had a fleeting fancy that he had come to a banana republic or a Balkan kingdom. On hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards caparisoned in Graustarkian dress uniforms festooned with gold braid and nipped at the waist with black leather gunbelts. The black vinyl hats trimmed in gold suggested, by turns, a Ruritanian palace guard, a Belgian customs inspector, and Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow...