Word: headgear
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...cloth for their uniforms he cut from the backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers...
...several shrines they arrested a total of 49 young men who had come provided to pray for "Greater Japan" equipped with everything from ancient Samurai headgear and swords to daggers, cans of kerosene and banners appealing to the public in such moving terms that police kept the texts rigidly secret. After grim days of extreme alarm, with police guarding banks, major business offices, electric power stations and waterworks, tension relaxed sufficiently for Premier Saito to give a party. Out of their limousine stepped U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Joseph Clark Grew, he a trifle lame and slightly deaf. Just as they...
...Egypt boiled with indignation last week at a Turkish insult to the fez, favorite headgear of Egypt's fat King Fuad. Years ago Turks abandoned the fez, the veil, the Arabic alphabet and polygamy by command of their progressive dictator, President Mustafa Kemal Pasha. It was Kemal himself, according to irate Cairo newspapers last week, who insulted the fez on Turkey's Independence Day at a banquet tendered by the President at Angora to the diplomatic corps...
...Wynn's father was a milliner, hence the Wynnian love of comical headgear. His collection of outlandish hats now totals 400. He also has a big pair of shoes which cost $3.50 but which, he says, have cost $1,400 to keep repaired. He has an apartment in Manhattan, a home in Florida, another in Great Neck, L. I. Once he owned the mansion in Great Neck where now lives Cinemagnate Nicholas Schenck. He likes bicycles, collects books of wit. He thinks his joke collection is the world's largest. He plays several musical instruments. He is married...
...Stalin's proxy, Soviet Premier Vyacheslav Molotov was to meet the Turks at the station. He wondered whether to wear a silk hat or the orthodox Bolshevik headgear, a cap. Mrs. Molotov. young, vivacious and a friend of young, serious Mrs. Stalin, suggested the way out of her husband's dilemma, whispered Moscow gossip. Going to the station and up to the very last moment before the train chuffed in, Premier Molotov wore his cap then whisked it out of sight as a Red Army band struck up the "Internationale" and an entire company of Red Army soldiers snapped...