Word: kit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characterized by the brave inebrieties of Greenwich Village; in England by the no-less-eccentric brilliance of writers like Ronald Firbank, who always carried a few lumps of coal in his suitcase to remind him where his family got its money. Like Firbank, "Kit" Wood was a well-to-do, social young man who became a legend, but the legend is of a singularly pure artist whom nobody laughed at, everybody liked and Londoners have become sentimental about...
...would be easy for war propaganda to sway these men. Such new slogans as "Let Uncle Sam make your decisions for you" or "Leave the bread-line and be a hero" would make valuable additions to old-timers like "Pack up your troubles in the old kit...
Said Skater Kit Klein (onetime, 1935-36, North American women's speed skating champion) : "This is the greatest thing next to real...
Chocolate bars for quick-energy food and an alarm clock will be the principle items in Buder's kit. His last words before retiring for some rest were, "It's going to be a lot of fun." He admitted, then that there is only one way the bet can be called off--if he gets arrested for speeding
...Sommerneld made up for deficiencies. Once, on a routemarch, they passed a column coming back from the front. "They were utterly worn out, unshaven, filthy, dressed in thin, bleached and tattered overalls, mostly wearing worn-out rope-soled canvas shoes through which their toes protruded: they had hardly any kit, were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from the depths of their exhaustion; the song (low, monotonous, tragic) positively wrung...