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Word: shakoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appeared as a bride on her wedding day was the nature of her dress, concealed under an ermine cape as she stepped into the glittering gold Royal Coach with Prince Bernhard. He was in the blue-braided black uniform of the Blue Hussars, with red military sash and black shako surmounted by red plumes. Eight coal-black horses drew them and behind came four horses drawing the coach of widowed Queen Wilhelmina with whom rode the widowed German mother of the bridegroom, discreetly sporty Princess Armgard zu Lippe-Biesterfeld (cigarets, fast cars and cocktails in moderation). Lined up outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: Serene & Royal | 1/18/1937 | See Source »

...prizes, but the Whitney offers far more practical rewards by buying from its large endowment a great many more pictures from each Biennial than it ever expects to hang permanently on its walls. Critics rooted loudest last week for a portrait of a pert chorus blonde in a plumed shako by Walt Kuhn, who started his artistic career drawing comic pictures for the humorous weeklies, has become one of the ablest painters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculptresses | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...same towering white shako that pressed so heavily on his throbbing brow during the funeral of George V (TIME, Feb. 3), buck-toothed King Carol II of Rumania in Paris reviewed France's Garde Républicaine. Later in a more comfortable cap, he received from France's oldest living Marshal Franchet D'Espérey, France's highest military decoration, the yellow and green Médaille Militaire, awarded only to commanders of divisions -and to private soldiers who have won it under fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Bull Strong | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

...general's daughter when she visits Hawaii, gets into trouble when he takes her for a moonlight joyride. Ruby Keeler is the general's daughter who, when her father has been assigned to the Point as Superintendent, watches Powell, wearing a shako and a beatific grin, graduate four years later. Between times, Flirtation Walk investigates such West Point traditions as plebe hazing, commencement exercises and the Kissing Rock under which Miss Keeler fails to entice Powell. A One Hundredth Night Show gives the stars a chance to sing songs called "Flirtation Walk," "No Horse, No Wife, No Mustache," "Mister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 10, 1934 | 12/10/1934 | See Source »

...Freshmen who hope to send home expense accounts containing plenty of "incidentals" may consider Virginia Military Institute. There, a minimum cost of $800 includes $330 for such incidentals as shako, white trousers, coatee, and blouse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Costs | 8/20/1934 | See Source »

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