Word: insigniaed
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...proud car owner," Manhattan's elegant Black, Starr & Gorham last week ran a discreet ad. At prices starting at $30, motorists were offered car keys of gold with religious, scenic or auto insignia "to do justice to [their] shiny possession." Snappiest model: a miniature Cadillac with movable wheels, ruby tail lights, diamond headlights and a key that retracts into the chassis. Price...
...inquired of a lady who was wearing officer's insignia on her uniform what all this meant. "We're members of the Cambridge Red Cross Disaster Committee. We got an alert at 2:20 to come to the Common and we all rushed over here. I think it's a marvelous turn-out. Out of about 500 people who were telephoned, around 200 showed up, I'd say." Some of the ladies who were ladling out coffee to each other had come over in such haste that they hadn't had time to get into uniform. One elderly lady said...
...There only a few weeks ago the Nationalists had hoped to make their last stand. But to land last week would have been dangerous; Yunnan's Governor Lu Han was going over to the Communists, and his troops had turned their caps inside out to hide the Nationalist insignia and show their new allegiance. Lu had even tried to persuade some Szechwanese generals to seize Chiang in Chengtu and hold him for the Reds...
...most startling work in the group, apart from aesthetic considerations, is his pen drawing, "The White General," dated 1919. Standing against a background of human misery and brutality, is an exact representation of the Nazi of World War H--complete with Storm Trooper helmet and swastika insignia. Grosz saw things very clearly 30 years...
Only Stalin escapes this effect. "Perhaps," reflects T & C, his "plain* uniforms, quite unrelieved by any insignia . . . are studiedly symbolic of the wastes of vast Siberia . . . a perennial reminder of the Russian military might or might-not, a sort of sartorial sabre rattle...