Word: headgear
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...expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel helmets a quantity of cheap and flimsy iron headgear. But to the Cairo populace the chief interest seemed to be how affectionate a wife was "Egypt's Beauty Queen," as some of the Kingdom's more romantic newshawks began calling...
...regulation khaki tunic. He wore no leggings, left an expanse of white sock showing between his trousers and Army shoes. Over all he yanked dun dungarees and a warm canvas jacket, spotted with grease. On his head he set a heavy, padded leather helmet-the tankers' standard headgear. Around his neck he reluctantly strung a new gadget much hated by the Armored Force: a recently designed dust-mask, undoubtedly useful for preventing silicosis, but in Company D parlance a goddam nuisance after hours of heavy nose-pinching...
...Paramount) concerns operations at Showman Earl Carroll's pale green "theatre restaurant" on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard. There is unconsciously aimless comedy by Ken Murray and others, and the Earl Carroll chorus girls strut stiffly about the stage in irrelevant maneuvers involving immense fans and Christmas-tree headgear...
Exactly ten days before the end of World War I, two Italian naval officers named Raffaele Rossetti and Raffaele Paolucci, dressed in watertight rubber suits with air pouches at chest and back, and headgear shaped to look (in the sea) like drifting barrels, entered the waters outside Pola Harbor with what they called their "machine." It was a converted torpedo the forward part of which consisted of two "war heads," metal cylinders each filled with 400 pounds of TNT, and equipped with both clockwork and contact detonators. The war heads were detachable from the main body of the machine...
...favor of aluminum neckties. In support of Fascist flag-waving, he manifestoed in favor of a national cocktail composed of red, white and green liquors. And when Italy went on the warpath for an Ethiopian Empire, he signed up and went to East Africa, busy with "ideas for Army headgear of celluloid and air-cooled aluminum to mitigate the Ethiopian desert." On foreign policy he has been no less articulate. Once, when England was in mild disfavor, he clarioned: "Down with roast beef and pudding in England!" Later, when Britain was temporarily being courted, "The English," he stated...