Word: rainbowed
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...other Harvard men had various costumes. Frank Pastorius was a Red soldier and Doug Brown and Thaxter Spencer were Rainbow soldiers. Edgar Knowlton was some sort of judge or court savant. We were a motley crew...
...wore a pair of brown tights, as did all the supers (male), a green cloth headress of the Easter fashions of 3478 B. C., and a brilliant red tunic. I termed my group the Red soldiers. Harry was a soldier in what I called the Rainbow Division, evidently founded by the color-loving Joseph during his stay with the Pharaohs. His tunic was a thing of radiant beauty if viewed from after, and his helmet shimmered in the African glare of the kleig lights. Bung was a nobody, a gray sort of individual with no color...
...MacArthur cheered his tired men. He himself must have been sustained by the growing realization that he was a national hero. Cables and radio messages of congratulations continued to pour in last week-from the workers at the Picatinny Arsenal. Dover, N.J.; from veterans of his World War I Rainbow Division; from New York City's Inner Circle, a political writers' club. But General MacArthur could not know how great and how American his legend had grown...
MacArthur went on in World War I to turn in a spectacular performance as brigade commander, then divisional commander of the Rainbow Division. The striking idea of creating a division that included troops from every state in the Union was Douglas MacArthur's. While the Rainbow raced with Major General Clarence R. Edwards' 26th (New England) Division for the honor of being first to land on French soil, MacArthur was too sensible a soldier to permit his troops to put off underequipped in .order to gain that honor. The Rainbow barely nosed out the 26th to France...
...rumpled man with cantilever mustach was giving the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships plenty to brood about. Greying William Starling Burgess, designer of America's Cup defenders (Enterprise, Rainbow and Ranger), whipper-upper of the automobile-engined Sea Otter (TIME, Sept. 29), had turned up with another ship innovation...