Word: kilt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble started because the bagpipers of the Canadian Women's Army Corps Pipe Band wanted to wear short kilts. Defense Headquarters cited authorities. The cut of a woman's kilt, it pointed out, must "for anatomical reasons" be different from a man's; it must be longer. The above-the-knee kilt for women was "a travesty of the male attire ... an affront to the Gael." The C.W.A.C. pipers would have to wear regulation drab khaki uniforms-at least until a more decorous, calf-length kilt could be designed...
...most illuminating. An old lady who lived near my boyhood home used to tell me that the greatness of the Scottish race was attributable to "patience, pairseverance, and lots of parritch." Now I realize that she neglected to tell me how effective was the local refrigeration of the kilt...
...operations officer, Captain Philip Rognile, took over the radio. "Frogs, frogs. I say frogs. All right, stupid, I mean tanks," he yelled at someone at the other end. A leather-faced farmer from Tennessee, Sergeant Robert Riggina, chimed in dryly, "Them tanks is all right. F Company woulda been kilt or captured yesterday if them tanks hadn't come...
...visit to Russia's front as chief of the British Military Mission was Lieut. General Frank Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
Trelawny and Byron decided to liberate Greece. But when Byron died at Missolonghi, Trelawny was not with him. He had met another "glorious being," a patriotic Greek outlaw named Odysseus, "a Bolivar who might become a Washington." They hunted bears and Turks together. Soon Trelawny (in a Greek kilt) was living with the Odysseus family in their mountain cave, had married Odysseus' half sister. But she was too fond of European fashions, and they parted. "Marriage," wrote Trelawny, "is a most unnatural state of things...