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...Guns Right!" The Army display, with George V turned out at Aldershot as a Field Marshal in khaki uniform and field boots, was more cheerful. Since His Majesty's horse is also affected by noise, the audience of 50,000 was requested not to cheer until he had safely dismounted. Then pandemonium burst from loyal throats in cheer on cheer while the Royal Field Marshal was got in the shade of a pavilion and 9,000 warriors-a full-strength British war division-began marching, trotting, speeding and clanking past. Over one-half of this modern Army display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The King and the Sea | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...lively a ballyhoo as U. S. sports-pages have ever seen, was now about to engage the most dangerous adversary of his career, Brobdingnagian Primo Carnera. For a moment the two men stood with their seconds at the centre of the ring. Swarthy Carnera looked darker than khaki-colored Louis. Then the bell rang and the fight began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bomber, Assassin, Slasher | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...vase. In the background is a map with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square-headed figure in khaki breeches and boots may gaze with hat in hand upon his river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rio Teodoro | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

Aboard the Capetown a short-sighted watch officer spied the khaki-uniformed soldiers clustered about the building door, quickly reported to his commander. Leaping to the telephone, Captain Budgen called Manager Raeburn of Asiatic Petroleum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Thanks For Relief | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

...Army Khaki uniform, complete with one bar on shoulder with a Sam Browne belt and hat. Harding Uniform & Regalia Co., Coast Guard insignia, Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POLICE FURNISH LIST OF FIFTY STOLEN ARTICLES | 5/4/1935 | See Source »

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