Word: braids
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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...
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...
Down, down, down he fell, and when he landed gently he was on the platform of a great hall in 1944. Before him a rousing parade was in progress. At its head, astride the White Horse, rode Representative Hamilton Fish, magnificent in khaki and gold braid. The White Horse was walking backward. Next came Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson and "Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each...