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Later it was discovered that a khaki shirt, a pair of blue trousers, and a pair of high sneakers were missing from Clapp's room. Investigation disclosed the fact that Officer Breene a motorcycle patrolman of the Metropolitan Police Force, had seen a person answering the missing man's description and dressed in khaki shirt, blue trousers, and tennis shoes, on the corner of Western Avenue and Flag Street at 1.45 o'clock yesterday morning. Apparently he was returning from a fire on the Magazine Beach across the river...
...searching party was organized at 10 o'clock last night when it was learned that a figue in khaki shirt and blue trousers had been seen running along the Charles River bank opposite the Mount Auburn Cemetery at 6 o'clock in the afternoon. Several of Clapp's friends and a detail of Metropolitan Police searched the woods and swamps below the Speedway, but no trace had been found at the hour of going to press...
...obvious discomfort of Edward, but to the delight of all others, Mr. Harvey drew a comparison between the Prince who fought in France clad in black armor and the Prince who fought there in khaki; from that he proceeded to eulogize him as " the White Prince...
...pause in reading and our eyes are misty for a moment as we see dusty roads with cheery grinning boys' faces under their "tin-derbies", faces of boys marching, or we see sprawled figures by a wayside ditch, or stunted twisted forms on stretchers, awful, hidden under their khaki blankets, and we think of a greeting in a voice we have not heard for three long dulling years. We do not cry the praises of this book. But we are grateful to the man who made it for us, the man whose care, whose understanding, and whose taste, bring...
Democracy cannot be called a successful form of government until there is enough persistent thought about public affairs to control decisions, locally and nationally. England is far from the desired result, as was shown dramatically by the stampeded khaki-elections of 1918, but still is far ahead of us. Webb, Russell, Cole, Hobson, Massingham, Shaw, Wells, Gardiner, Brailsford are types among the hundreds of able and informed men who have devoted long years to pounding the mass to keep it awake, and certainly not one in this distinguished company has given more distinguished service than Norman Angell...