Word: lapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, accompanied by Captain John O'Connell, Jimmy arrived by clipper. Decorations won by his flier buddies covered his blue serge lapel. Jimmy's thoughts, for once, were far from music. He said: "They let me hold the rudder and steer the ship, and my, that was a thrill...
...Sunday the President, wearing a red rose at his lapel and accompanied by all of the family group except his mother, went to the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md. In its chapel he led the nation's observance of a day of prayer in thanksgiving for victory. Then Harry Truman visited ailing Cordell Hull, a patient at the hospital...
President Harry Truman was sitting in a cane-backed swivel chair, one elbow resting on the Presidential desk. He wore a double-breasted blue suit with a World War I discharge button in his left lapel...
...Nassau's palm-fringed Government House a barrage of phone calls and cables descended. For half a day the Duke of Windsor was not at home to any queries. Then he donned a dapper, grey check suit, pinned a red carnation in his lapel, and with his well-dressed Duchess at his side, gallantly went forth to meet the press and explain his second abdication...
...been Marshal Pétain's counselor and Vichy's foremost apologist. On his lapel he still wore Marshal Pétain's badge. "I do not fear facing a firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...