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...generals admired the belts, tried them on for size. Snorted a two-star general: "Hell of a thing or the field-a sniper could pick out the buckle at 1,000 yards." A brigadier general gloomed: "No good as a shaving strap either-all that stitching." Having received no instructions on what to use the belts for, the generals concluded that somebody in Washington was designing a wardrobe for the march down the Wilhelmstrasse. The belts were tossed in bottom drawers...
...most of the chichi left in shoes is in ersatz materials-a red fabric rose or composition cherries at the toe of a plain leather pump, multicolored raffia beach sandals, bright wooden clogs, etc. The only frivolous style note in 1944 women's shoes is the high ankle strap (see cut, p. 82). The real style is the "classic" day shoe that can go anywhere and keep going...
Once in a while the long arm of the law reached out to hold up a slipping brassiere strap and occasionally competition has threatened the leadership of the Old Howard, but never did its loyal following of beardless youth and balded following of beardless youth and balded age fall away as did the Millerites. Here, with a bottle of Scotch and large eigars, fresh-from-prep-school Yardlings matched their manliness against each other. Crimson CRIMSON candidates pushed into backstage interviews. Roverent Yale men dropped in on their pilgrimages to the nearby Waldorf where a plaque marks the birthplace...
...internal policy of his Government is the revival of Irish language and Irish culture. He speaks and writes Irish accurately and fluently, but he is willing to urge frustrated Irish students to rebel against "print-suckled hacks who have learned Irish in their youth at the point of a strap, and who have made such a mess of their lives that they can exist only by correcting examination papers." This line is always good for letters...
Lawson sat in his pilot seat on the sand, under 15 ft. of water. His nerveless hands reached down, unbuckled the seat strap and his pneumatic life belt brought him to the surface. Too paralyzed to swim, he was lifted and dropped by the waves. Dimly he saw the two tail rudders "sticking up out of the water like twin tombstones." At last a wave carried him in far enough so that he could crawl up on the beach...