Word: knapsackers
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...school, into "safe" areas, billet them with rural families, teach them in rural schools on double shifts. On Monday, when London's schools opened for the fall term, its school children had a dress rehearsal. Instead of books, each child brought to school a gas mask and a knapsack (for some a pillowcase had to do) containing a change of underwear, spare stockings, pajamas, toothbrush, towel, soap, comb, 48-hours rations, milk, canned beef, biscuits, chocolate bars. Excused from lessons, pupils played all day in their schoolyards. When they tired of play, they broke into their knapsacks and ate their...
When 56-year-old Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger stepped off a train in Wausau, Wis., he wore no hat or overcoat, sported white ducks and an old brown jacket, carried an umbrella, a knapsack on his back. Because it was -7°F., police promptly ran him in. Composer Grainger finally identified himself, explained that he dislikes heavy clothing, has not worn a hat in 20 years, carries the umbrella simply to keep snow out of his bushy hair...
...slack, so he and Mrs. Pplow opened the top part of the front door and engaged in a loud conversation regarding the fact that the House was University property, in the cans outside might be tempted in. Northing but a small Yale man clad in shorts and a huge knapsack was drawn. however...
Burton Rascoe has always been a bright boy. As an urchin in Kentucky, a lad in Oklahoma, a stripling in Chicago, a young man in Manhattan he showed the same kind of promise as the Napoleonic private with a marshal's baton in his knapsack. On the U. S. literary front of 15 years ago, if they wanted a man to encourage the van or to harass the foe from the rear, Burton Rascoe was just the man. This week, when he published his long-promised reminiscences, he was no longer even a front-line sentinel. The tide...
Instantly M. Boverat mobilized against Miss Warner the powerful forces of the National Alliance for Increasing the Population of France, which tucks an illustrated manual of instruction into the knapsack of every French recruit and has obtained exemption from Army service for every Frenchman with six children or more, reduced railway tickets for families with three or more, many another benefit for the fecund. Within a few hours M. Boverat had obtained a police order barring Miss Warner from dancing at the Bagdad. Next he got her indicted "for an offense against the public's sense of shame...