Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...unsympathetic your roommate appears when he sees the bargain! Yet sure enough, to smoke the third layer you must wear a gas mask, while the tailor explains that you have just enough cloth for a nice vest...
...Orders 49 (1916) of the War Department will be worn. (b) The distinctive badge for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is worn on the upper part of the left forearm of both the service coat and the olive drab shirt. The design is embroidered in blue on olive drab cloth of the shape and dimensions prescribed by the War Department. This badge will be worn by all members of the Corps. (c) The cap ornament is a bronze wreath with the letters R.O.T.C. in center. (d) The collar ornament for coat is a bronze device R.O.T.C. worn, on each side...
...been awarded by the United States Government, but no other. (c) The distinctive badge for the Reserve Officers' Training Corps is worn on the upper part of the left forearm of both the service coat and the olive drab shirt. The design is embroidered in white on olive drab cloth as follows...
Putting men in uniform will not make all men alike, nor will it cover by olivedrab cloth a man's individuality. But it will remove those barriers of appearance which we have to some extent erected against the tides of democracy. It would be wrong to hope that every man in uniform will hail another as a kindred spirit, to be granted his friendship and his intimacy. Yet we know that true men will see other men on a plane of equality...
...like the Lady of Shallot wove; soft purple in the west changing to shimmering white in the east. Under me on the left the Vosges, like rounded sand dunes cushioned up with velvety light and dark mosses (really forests). But to the south, standing firmly above the purple cloth like icebergs shone the Alps. My! they looked steep and jagged. The sharp blue shadows on their western slopes emphasized the effect. One mighty group standing aloof to the West--Mont Blanc, perhaps. Ah, there are quantities of worm-eaten fields--my friends, the trenches,--and that town with the canal...