Word: kit
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...James Richard Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope, now First Lord of the Admiralty, is noted for his outspokenness, rashness, indiscretion. Once in 1915 he went straight from Flanders and without changing from his muddy kit appeared in the House of Lords to tell publicly just what was wrong with the ammunition supply system serving the troops in France and Belgium. Former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now Earl Baldwin) called him "that good man Jim Stanhope" and took him under his political wing, but Lord Baldwin also saw to it that important statements made by Friend Jim (who was then First Commissioner...
Custom-made from the last kit of carburetor wrenches in its Winnipeg shop to its corps of well-drilled, 9540-125 Ib. hostesses, Trans-Canada Air Lines is piloted by 40 veteran Canadian airmen who were instructed for a year by U. S. airline veterans. First scheduled night flights last week followed a course that had an emergency field every 35 miles, a major airport with radio range every...
Armistice Day by hoisting a red flag atop his factory. Later, in the huge Government motor transport depot at Slough known as The White Elephant, he headed the workers' ironbound union. The Government dared not fire him for fear of arousing his followers. Solution: they sacked the whole kit & boodle-7,800 workingmen-just to get rid of Wal. Whereupon Wal dressed them all up as clergymen in surplices and paraded them through the grounds before a huge white cloth elephant, which they pompously mourned as dead...
...face lathered in cold cream, his body clad only in a brief pair of shorts, a cheerful-looking young man sat on a stool before the mirror, surrounded by a make-up kit and tufts of false hair. He was busy pulling off long red eyebrows. Beside him lay a tinny helmet from which horns protruded. Standing up against the wall was a long sword, rather battered. The young man eyed Vag with an amused...
Modern clubs are little more than two centuries old. They really got going in Queen Anne's London, where men- usually impelled by politics-met regularly in coffeehouses and taverns. At the Whigs' Kit-Cat Club, Addison and Congreve fellowshipped with statesmen and lords; at the Tories' Scriblerus, Swift and his friends forgathered. Before the 18th Century went out, London swarmed with clubs that, like Dr. Johnson's immortal one, produced great conversation, or like White's, Boodle's and Brooks's, witnessed some of the steepest gambling in history...