Word: knapsacks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...pinnacles. With only his valet, van Dyck, he jumped in a little car and drove over. At the foot of the cliffs he looked at his watch, recalled that he had an engagement at the Palais des Sports in Brussels that evening. Then he took a rope, a canvas knapsack and a climbing ax out of the rear of the car and started up the cliffs...
...from the backs of fellow-prisoners. From his guards he bought tin for the tiny swords which could be drawn from the scabbards, for the bayonets which could be fixed, fur and hair for the headgear which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army...
Perturbed by a lack of pockets, Representative Ruth Bryan Owen of Florida invented a knapsack to contain briefs, bills and other necessities. To make it harmonize with feminine attire, she hung it from one shoulder by a strap with a silver buckle...