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Word: tunics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: By John C. Robbins, | Title: Harvard Spearmen Win Met Fame As Supers in Aida Boiler Room Exodus | 4/9/1942 | See Source »

...taking sentries, advises Mr. Levy, the back is the best approach. If that is not possible, the guerrilla covers the sentry with his revolver, steps on his foot, unbuttons his tunic and jerks it down over his arms to lock them. "You may slap his ears with the revolver barrel, to intimidate him. . . . You should also drop his trousers to lock his feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CIVILIAN DEFENSE: You, Too, May Be A Guerrilla | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...spiritual character he entered a monastery in 1920, donned tunic, girdle, scapular, hood and mantle, began to study the Carmelite specialty, mystical theology. Eventually he became head of the order in all France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Spirit in the Islands | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...Japanese staff officers' work has been of a high order." Outside. In battle dress a Japanese soldier looks like a badly wrapped brown paper package. His legs are too short, his pants are baggy, his leggings droop, his tunic is loose, his kit askew. He wears muddy leather shoes. He may have on a sweater or messy fatigue clothes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Portrait of a Japanese | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...even bigger part fell vacant -Die Walküre's Brünnhilde. Helen Traubel, herself pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad (immured in Norway for the duration), took cold. Astrid Varnay found herself dressed up again ; this time in a red wig, a hand-me-down cuirass and tunic of one of the Valkyrie maids, a man's heavy helmet. Again the debutasters were amazed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pinch Hitter | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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