Word: khakis
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...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...
...blinding heat, a French army patrol wound deep into the Atlas Mountains last week. Ambling, loose-jointed came a detachment of the Camel Corps, then a sweltering khaki-clad detachment of the Foreign Legion, finally a black-skinned, red-fezzed detachment of stalwart Senegalese. The column entered the pass called El Bordj. Nothing is there but blistering rocks, flat, cracked stretches of baked mud. The French column, losing contact with their flank outposts, pushed forward intent on reaching the evening's camp...
...Sargent is to be congratulated for solving so happily an extremely difficult problem. The khaki costume of the modern soldier lends itself to an orderly and interesting arrangement, and the necessity of filling two panels of rather difficult shapes with symbolic compositions, when no definite subjects were suggested to the artists, required the highest order of imaginative creation. Though individuals may criticize details of the composition and symbolism, none can deny that the artist has been extremely successful in his main purpose, which was to produce a great decorative composition aptly conceived and executed from the point of view...
...sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what a mistake!" And to the striker,- "Fix things for Bishop Brent!" But the khaki-clothed Bishop would not stop to eat. He had lunched with an Igorot in his mountain hut. He pushed on with a pleasant word to his furry companion who bore his canonicals and pajamas. "The Bishop," explained the General, "doesn't work among the Christian Filipinos. He says the Catholic...
...dust of defeat. It may be a worthy foe whose prowess threatens to send the Cadets back to the Highlands of the Hudson sadder and wiser men. But be the threat great or small it has always been the pride of Navy men that when their brothers in khaki sally forth to battle they will find their blue-clad shipmates behind them to a man, glorying in their victories and suffering with them in their defeats. And Army men, likewise, make the Navy's cause their own against a common adversary...