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Nonetheless, it shall be done as officers in officers' garb. You shall go without sleep, yes, but as gentlemen. No more, either, shall other shipmates be awakened while you grope for galoshes (1 pr.), havy underwear (2 pr.), and other innumerable garments. From now on, come security watches, and only your wife shall be awakened. A slight reversal of the usual procedure of waking her when you come in. Life is like that in war-time...
...will find the Harvard graduate students here (practically all of them in senior ROTC garb) most friendly and accomodating. You will be invited to join their Student Club and possibly fracas with them in a Harvard smoker later inn the month...
...exotic and excitable. ..." Lautrec's biographer Gerstle Mack described her differently: "She never allowed herself to lapse into vulgarity. ... Her friends were generally writers or artists, cultivated men in whose company she felt at ease." Lautrec immortalized Avril in numerous poses: as a Moulin Rouge spectator, in conventional garb leaving the cabaret, dancing a pas seul with her skirts flung high to reveal legs of startling thinness. Lautrec's most famous poster, Le Divan Japonais, featured Avril with her flaming red hair under a large black bonnet, listening with a toppered escort to a song by the disease...
...left a policeman caught me in the belt and dragged me back. I protested I had done nothing and I denied my wife had cursed [as the clerk contended]. I told them my wife didn't curse. When I said that, a man not in officers' garb gave me all he had on the jaw. Then I was dragged to the patrol car, handcuffed between two officers. I was struck again by this man not in uniform, who leaned through a window to hit me. My wife and I were put in a cell and our little girl...
...House committee hearings Representative Frances P. Bolton of Ohio had said there need be no worry about feminine morale: "A laundress is a laundress and glad to be one. . . . Lots of women washed for the Army the last time and never had any particular garb and never had recognition...