Word: collaring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White will be the attire at all official functions, but on occassions where semi-formal civilian dress is in mode, service dress blue, D, can be donned, unless otherwise directed. A turned down collar or standing wing collar may be used when service dress blue, D, is prescribed...
...Going in the Army soon?" It was the barber again, making conversation. "Yeah. Soon." Vag almost snapped it at him. The white coat retreated behind him, and he felt the hair jab him under his collar. "Damn...
Take a bearing on the 26th of April, me lads ... 'tis bandied about that on said date 1-43 becomes eligible to wear a white shirt every day ... and a paper collar every two day ... in short, achieve the distinction (?) of being summoned as Company A ... the date of our "last night ashore" is still shrouded in a typical New England mist ... lay your own odds as to whether we see the sunrise over the Yard on the 30th of May or not, or march with your own local American Legion in the holiday parade. Casualty list: a good percentage...
...motion for the first time. Every night was like Saturday night. People filled the Broadways and Main Streets, crowded streetcars, buses, factories, restaurants, post offices, stood in line at bars, theaters, nightclubs, bowling alleys. In their tin hats, they worked together in San Francisco shipyards: ex-college professors, white-collar workers, women, Chinese, Italians, Negroes, WAAC uniforms marched two abreast down the narrow sidewalks of Des Moines; WAVE uniforms swished neatly up & down Stillwater, Okla. Soldiers packed the nation's hotels, spilled over into boardinghouses, slept in railroad stations, pool halls, sometimes tramped the streets all night...
Smith's new book, a clothesline strung from his best-selling Low Man on a Totem Pole, ought at least keep its author paying stiff-collar taxes. Like Totem Pole it consists of the sort of talk that might be had, by the hour, from any boozy, bawdy, abundant newspaperman. Such talk is dull in spots, complacently boorish in others, childish in some of its conclusions (Westbrook Pegler, though mentally "the human saddle sore" is as a prose stylist "one of the great writers of our day"). At its worst the book has at least the charm...