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Except for the predominance of khaki in the stands and air-raid instructions on the programs, there was nothing to remind 100,000 Englishmen, gathered at Aintree last week, that they were at war. Around babbling bookmakers they swarmed, slapping down shillings on the favorites: H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli (who finished just astern of Battleship two years ago), Scott Briggs's MacMoffat (runnerup to Workman last year), Dorothy Paget's Kilstar (third-place horse a year...
...Valera raised money for a "national loan" to the Irish Republic; late in 1920 he returned in disguise to find Ireland in full revolt. The "Black-and-Tans," the khaki-coated, black-trousered special English police, tried to "stamp out rebellion with a strong hand...
...thousand men of the British Expeditionary Force, on leave from France, debarked at a south coast port in England. Rapidly, methodically, the khaki-clad figures handed their green passbooks to a slim officer in the uniform of the Royal Navy, swarmed past him to board a train. An unhurrying sergeant looked up and snapped into startled attention. The naval officer was George VI, "filling in" as a ticket collector to learn how it was done...
...across the screen marched battalions of snappy, young soldiers in new khaki uniforms with new Lee-Enfield rifles...
...They may wear silk stockings but no frills or gimcracks with their regulation khaki uniform...