Word: getup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a job for pros. The R.A.F., which has for at least six months been ferrying planes from Freetown to Cairo, has lost about 20% of its planes for lack of the gadgets and getup necessary for steady, lossless shuttling. It was an echo of the 1934 U.S. airmail fiasco; the U.S. Army just could not handle the business...
...goes in a costume of tan, high-laced field boots, dark riding breeches, pastel green jacket with vest to match and a dark green shirt. He invariably instructs the announcer to apologize to the audience for his workaday appearance, despite the fact that spectators are stunned by the getup...
...wondering how the majority could be thus dillied, did well to look toward La Salle and Ran dolph Streets in Chicago. At that busy corner, one day last week, a white horse stood. On the horse was Miss Elane Summers, 19, a Rockford (Ill.) College sophomore, in a Revolutionary getup which was supposed to make her resemble Paul Revere (see cut,p.11). Calling herself Pauline Revere, Miss Summers admonished the U. S.: "MOBILIZE FOR PEACE-DEFEAT CONSCRIPTION." Said alliterative Papa Summers (who in 1938 denounced Communists for luring his son Thane to death in Loyalist Spain): ". . . My pink daughter...
...infantry lieutenant during World War I. In the past eight years his course in "American Thought and Civilization" has significantly outstripped in popularity elegant Professor Chauncey Brewster Tinker's "Age of Johnson" and now, with 350 students, has the largest crowd in the university. Textbookish in getup and without resort to charm, his book is strictly and impressively U. S. stuff, the richest work of its kind since Parrington's Main Currents of American Thought...