Word: tunicate
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...policemen are as genteel as tall, bland Thomas Wentworth Russell, whose family (the Dukes of Bedford) have been potent in British politics almost continuously since Henry VIII. Few policemen are as magnificent, for his white dress tunic with its glittering scimitar is splattered with stars and medals. Few policemen are busier, for Thomas Wentworth Russell is not only Chief of Cairo's police, but spends much of his time as Director of the Narcotics Intelligence Bureau of Egypt, a position equivalent to that of world's chief narcotic sleuth. Because of his intense campaign to shut...
After the armistice, when Alceo Dossena took off his fighting tunic he was no longer satisfied with repairing other people's antiques. He had handled and studied the work of so many great masters, had learned so many secrets of coloring, polishing and aging stone, that he felt quite capable of doing a little original work of his own. Sculptor Dossena set up shop in a little villa outside Florence, then in one outside Rome. He locked the doors of both to strangers...
...played on the stage last week where the yawning cistern should have been to hold Jochanaan prisoner, where two dark cypress trees should have stood sinisterly against an Oriental sky. Jeritza and Jochanaan were conventionally clothed but if she had worn veils and he a hair- cloth tunic the performance could not have caused more excitement. The audience stayed long after the finish to cheer and cheer...
...first candidate to enter this year's Republican field was William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of Buffalo. As Wartime commander of the 165th Infantry ("Fighting 69th"), he made a great reputation for personal heroism, returned from France with his mud-splashed tunic heavy with medals. As U. S. District Attorney at Buffalo, he was drastic enough to lose some friends locally but to be called to Washington to assist the Attorney General. For three years with Mabel Walker Willebrandt, he practically ran the Department of Justice over the hulking shoulder of easy-going John Garibaldi Sargent. He climbed...
Across St. Louis's twisty Free Bridge last week went a rag-tag troupe of some 300 men clad in odds & ends of martial raiment-an old overseas cap here, a dirty olive drab tunic there. A few carried pails in which to make coffee and stews, a few carried clubs. The latter served as "military police." They were supposed to suppress vandalism, prevent radical speechmaking, see that none of the company begged or got drunk. One man carried clippings to show that before the Depression he was an Omaha broker who was ordered to pay $45,000 alimony...