Word: outdoor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle zones last week, some U.S. Catholic chaplains offered outdoor Masses in strange garb: khaki vestments tinted by camouflage experts. Altar cloths were also camouflaged. Reason for the change, effected by New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Military Vicar of the U.S. Armed Services: the traditional white and brightly colored vestments draw fire from enemy planes...
...Outdoor Housekeeping. We saw washing on little lines strung up anywhere, on a wire fence, between two bumpers, two branches, across the pavement. During the hot days they wore trunks of the briefest style, looked very healthy and brown, and happy too. They really behaved like boys, playing ball, wrestling, and all sorts of queer games, and how they loved harmonicas, banjos and guitars...
...financial keel is Gaetano Merola, a 63-year-old Neapolitan with a vegetable-wagon accent. Merola arrived in San Francisco in 1921 as one of the batoneers of the barnstorming San Carlo Opera. He promptly lost his shirt and lightened several other people's pock ets producing an outdoor opera season at the Stanford University Stadium...
Wednesday evening and the Blood-liberty saw many of the boys down at the Esplanade enjoying the outdoor concert. We saw Rodney Brokenshire and his Cowie dietitian (very nice, too); Vin Bjoin and his Spar; and many others as they listened to Fledler at his best...
...Assisted by the League's public-relations director, Gertrude Hendricks, who once taught the construction of form-fit corsets, she cajoled some 120 candidates through a fort night of spring training oh: 1) conversation techniques, 2) etiquette, 3) posture, 4) dress, 5) make-up and hairdo for the outdoor girl, 6) how to attract the right kind of man as against the wolf. Before hitting the road, the players pledged themselves not to smoke in public or ap pear in bars, arranged to stop in private homes instead of hotels...