Word: platoons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Silver trumpets fanfared. The royal procession moved across St. Peter's Square. Like medieval statues, a platoon of the famed Swiss Guards stood at attention in the scarlet, green and yellow uniforms designed for them by Michael Angelo. Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace. Under the Bernini colonnade, the Palatine Guards, more "efficient section of the Pope's army, snapped modern rifles to the present...
Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter social season just ahead." She announced a few of her recipes in advance. Explained Mrs. Doran: "Prohibition took something away from the American people, but we can give them something just as good-a cocktail that satisfies but does not inebriate. . . . Mince pie is delicious without brandy-if made properly...
...opening night the Assembly emphasized its éclat with a platoon of Manhattan debutantes who served as ushers. The program listed a committee of Founders including: Mrs. William De Rham, Mrs. Adrian Iselin II, Mrs. Junius Morgan, Mrs. Kenneth M. Murchison, Mrs. William Church Osborn, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee. Executive director is Walter Greenough, longtime socio-dramatic entrepreneur...
Aiding the Committee of One Hundred in its welcome to the West Point Cadets in their visit to Cambridge Saturday morning, will be a crack platoon of the Massachusetts forces, it was announced, last night by C. M. Underhill '30, Chairman in charge of the reception to the Cadets...
Through the offer of Lieutenant-Colonel H. Z. Landon, the undergraduate committee will be assisted in its tender of hospitality by the Prize Drill Platoon, First Corps of Cadets (211th. Coast Artillery Anti-Aircraft) of Massachusetts. Forty men clad in striking uniforms of white jackets with light blue facings and light blue trousers will compose the troop which will first act in the capacity of official escort to the Governor in the morning program. Following the review upon the Common, the platoon will be dismissed at the Armory, and will reassemble in the Yard in time to assist the Reception...