Word: insignia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bedizened with the insignia of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire and a police captain's badge good in Santa Monica, Calif., Comedienne Gracie Fields arrived for a vacation in the U. S. after patriotically entertaining Tommies at the front. For Manhattan ship newsmen she sang this extra verse of her famous song, The Biggest Aspidistra* in the World: They're going to string old Hitler From the very highest branch Of the biggest aspidistra in the world...
Declaring that he had suspected Lyford from the first, James added that the Harvard Junior "blanched" at the order to wear a red shirt and "here or zero pin," the group's insignia in a proposed parade...