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...Johnson, scrofulous sage of the 18th Century; BEN Jonson, Elizabethan playwright: JACK Johnson, blackamoor pugilist. *In a floppy felt hat and a pair of khaki trousers, Markswoman Foster turned in a card of 280 out of a possible 300 at 300, 500, 600, 900, and 1,000 yards on a windy day. Runner-up was a ''man in skirts"-Lieut. Alexander Eccles, Seaforth Highlander, with...
...check up of the various clothing stores in town here revealed that approximately 800 pairs of short pants had been sold already. The more colorful of the men today, however, did not appear in tailor mades but in basketball pants, slashed off filannels, and khaki Boy Scout shorts...
...possibilities are unlimited. Khaki shorts, fiannel shorts, grey shorts, blue and green shorts worn with any shirt open at the neck and any kind of socks loose about the ankles. We advocate them for tennis, for golf, for basking in the sun, for attendance at the most aristocratic of classes, for study in the library and-dinner at the D. O. C. House...
...improving their morale, quickening their esthetic sense. The suggestion was conveyed to him by Congresswoman Edith Nourse Rogers of Massachusetts, relict of Representative John Jacob Rogers. Lowell textile tycoon. Lest anyone think she had the selfish motive of trying to help the textile industry, Mrs. Rogers explained: "Wartime khaki uniforms are drab and tiresome to the eye. . . ." Moreover, she pointed out, blue uniforms would call for black shoes, and orders for shoes are needed quite as badly by manufacturers in her district as orders for cloth...
There was an old maid of Milwaukee Who had an affair with a darky; To atone for her sins, She had triplets, not twins, One black, one white and one khaki...