Word: clad
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Once more the Freshman halls will be filled with the khaki-clad cadets; once again we will effect reliefs at Fresh Pond and counter-attack at Waverley. Although it is to be only of six weeks' duration so as not to disrupt the College year, indications point to as fortunate a camp in 1918 as was that which graduated so many trained men to Plattsburg last year...
...which the old millionaire bachelor demonstrates in many successive speeches that he does not appreciate Christmas, he leaves the club and starts for home in his "perfectly appointed car." Presently he learns from his chauffeur that they have knocked down a child--"a wisp of a girl, poorly clad, whose pinched face spoke the lack of food." From this point on the old millionaire buys Christmas presents until along toward the end, when we hear of "the star which they saw in the East"; and catch from the mother of the wisp that ever-beautiful sentiment, "God bless...
...make this review a success means concentrated effort on everyone's part; it means a full attendance with each man clad in complete uniform. Up to the present this has been impossible. Today we must all be in the uniform prescribed...
...view with each other in sartorial battle for the most striking colors, and soldiers parade along Dead Man's Hill as civilians parade on Fifth Avenue. The familiar cloudblue, sand-brown, and leaf-green uniforms will be passe as are hoop skirts now. We may suppose an army clad in giraffe spots combatting victoriously at Potsdam, and taking time to change to ostrich-white and black before entering the capitol in triumph...
Uniforms are the glory and brightness of war. Twenty years ago in all armies uniforms were more gaudy and perhaps more attractive than they are now. In this age of grim and unsplendid war our armies are clad somberly and for battle...