Word: tunics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...engineer left his home, followed him at a distance until he disappeared in a neighboring wood. Hours later they found him. Dr. Hans Sattler had dug himself a trench, complete with parapet and dugout. They found him crouched on the fire step, wearing his faded blue lieutenant's tunic, still fighting the war, peering wildly into the night for ghostly Italian armies...
Fifteen years ago last week, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heavy-jowled, fearsomely mustached, tightly hooked into his light blue tunic, handed his wife into an automobile in front of the Serajevo town hall. A few moments later as the automobile passed by the Lateiner bridge over the Miljacka River, a volley of pistol shots rang out. The Archduke and his wife slumped forward, dead. That shooting by the Serajevo bridge, fuse of the World War, brought death to millions. Incidentally it brought independence from Austria to the province of Bosnia and the creation of the Jugoslav Kingdom. Last week...
...held Sergey McTavish by the collar of his astrakhan tunic and the seat of his breeches, kicking and wriggling like a retriever pup. Then he swung the boy up level with his shoulder and threw him sprawling on a snowdrift...
When the cinema became packed to absolute repletion, some 3,000 women who could not squeeze in grew vexed, rioted, knocked off the helmets of several policemen and mirthfully tore to shreds the tunic of an embarrassed police sergeant...
...SEEMED probable for a moment last night that Sergeant Willard Mack, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, would be out-diced in his conflict with Joseph Sweeney, the slickest dope-vender between Winnipeg and Vancouver. The sergeant, all ablaze in his scarlet tunic, had ventured into Hip Lung's basement laundry in search of murderers; and he was caught there like a brilliant parrot in a cage. Sweeney, a mean devil, had handcuffed the gorgeous fellow and was bossing him around at the point of a gun. Just as we were prepared to go home with the Sergeant's death...