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...Uniform. The chief item of the Girl Scout leaders' agenda was to adopt a new uniform in place of mannish, "tin cannish" khaki. Seven ladies paraded the platform in costumes of green wool with suede belts. The leaders delightedly voted that they should all dress that way. For Girl Scouts themselves, a pleated, roll-collared, one-piece slipover of green cotton twill was adopted, with sport hats to match...
George V of England, in naval uniform, stands hand on hip beside a pensive Wales in khaki. David Lloyd George is carrying a cane, fingering his monocle. Lord Kitchener listens attentively to something Lord French is explaining. A white-turbaned Maharajah smiles behind a bag-piping Scot...
Among the sportier introductions was the low-hung Six Cylinder Jordan (green finish with khaki top). Chevrolet had a-"Sport Cabriolet" which is a coupé of roadster type: an enclosed front compartment with a rumble seat in back. The Chevrolet line is now finished in grey and uses disc wheels. Chevrolet advertising spoke of "the most outstanding automotive success in recent years." For other cars, other merits were advertised...
...Brussels, last week, Their Belgian Majesties received correspondents, officially announced the engagement to the press. King Albert, tall, spectacled, khaki-clad, repeated several times during the audience: "It is a love match...
...Ernestine Schumann-Heink, a certain recent War means more than a pale echo of a bold blare of excitement, War veterans more than a cluster of sad-eyed poppies sold on the street by a khaki-coated huckster. For Schumann-Heink's sons were fighters-four with the U S. army, the fifth on a German submarine, an officer, killed-and a decade is not so long a time when one is within five years of the allotted three score...