Word: depotism
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...lighter-minded, the War Office has established in the main recruiting depot at Great Scotland Yard a line of male mannequins. These stalwart young men are exhibited in the full dress uniforms of a dozen famed regiments. A bashful recruit can shuffle about and decide for himself whether he would look better in the gaudy stockings of the Gordon Highlanders, the befrogged jackets of the Royal Horse Artillery, the white-plumed bearskin of the Royal Scots Greys, the brass helmets of the Royal Dragoons. Those who choose humbler regiments are handed new undress or "walking out'' uniforms that...
...Upon learning that an epidemic of scarlet fever caused a quarantine of schools in Genesee and Genesee Depot, Wis., whence Chicago gets several thousand quarts of certified milk each day, Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Niels Bundesen last week summarily forbade Genesee milk to enter Chicago...
Georgia: malaria control in Dublin; clearing woodland in Cairo; converting a depot into a common house in Wrens; opening, clearing and straightening the channel of Tanyard Stream in Barnesville; a fertilizer plant in Catoosa County; repairs on court house in Donalsonville; paving sidewalk in Tallapoosa; sanitation pit project of 400 units in Cairo; renovation of school in Blakely; bridge in Thomson; road improvement in Trenton...
...Paul's Union Depot an engine breakdown prolonged for a half-hour the tears, bustle and confusion of departure. Most families had killed their pets, thinking they were not allowed to take them along, but a few had dogs or cats and one woman had a canary. Having come from rented or foreclosed farms, most families were traveling light. Typically, the Clyde Cooks had only a stove. Their two attractive daughters, aged 16 and 18, were broken-hearted at leaving old friends behind. But the five boys, aged 2 to 14, were primed for adventure...
...Last week one Morris Baron, a greyish little ex-tailor who had been on home relief for three years, rushed into a Manhattan relief depot, screamed: "I want you should buy my wife a dress. Other women get Easter dresses. My wife she wants one. The city should buy her a dress." Thrown out by a policeman, he returned after ten minutes, shrieking: "Down with everything! Home relief, phooie!" Six policemen were summoned to carry him to jail...