Word: khaki
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Borger situation was similar to that in Mexia. City and county officials were conniving with scofflaws, winking at murders, sponsoring speakeasies and brothels. General Wolters supplanted the conniving officials with his Texas Rangers. Khaki-clad patrolmen directed traffic, policed the suddenly quiet streets. Drinkers no longer rioted in wide-open saloons but tippled alone at home behind locked doors. Bootleggers and daughters of joy, hearing the oldtime frontier command to "get out of town by sundown," scuttled away. The women barbers changed to clothes from pajamas...
Crowds massed at the tomb of Belgium's Unknown Soldier on the day the engagement was officially proclaimed last week. It was 9:30 in the morning, and the anniversary of the marriage of the present King and Queen of Italy in 1896. Gendarmes in khaki overcoats, their steel trench helmets painted white, formed a guard of honor. Cinema operators, sound and silent, stood by their tripods, then threw away their cigarets as a gleaming Minerva, private automobile of King Albert of Belgium, drew up at the curb...
With the political situation eased by the deflation of Dr. Pfrimer, well-groomed, white-chinned Johann Schober, Vienna's paunchy Police President, carefully inspected his green-coated and his khaki-coated constabulary, took stock of the machine guns in his station houses. Then he issued a cryptic but reassuring message in the Wiener Sonnundmontagszeitung (Vienna Sundayandmondaynewspaper...
...omnibuses with the flags of 71 nations bristling in the wind, moved slowly through Birkenhead, England, passed through streets packed with hand-waving townsfolk to Arrowe Park, where there were broad green fields, freshly-cleaned parade grounds, stately trees. There the great flag-decked omnibuses deposited boys in khaki-colored uniforms, each with bundles, and a pack upon his back. Soon tents, 40 acres of them, had sprung up in neat, army-like rows...
...Shop fronts were steel-shuttered, cafes were deserted save for an occasional worried waiter, moodily wiping the empty table tops. Foreign correspondents, smelling trouble, gravitated toward the Bucharest telegraph office. It was closed, and not going to open. As the day advanced, groups of soldiers in steel helmets and khaki appeared on the street corners, leaning against lamp posts, smoking cigarets when their officers were not looking...