Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Scott. "I made the King laugh!" cackled Old Bill, emerging from his interview in high glee. "I recalled to him how once he near upset the captain's gig, of which I was coxswain, by his skylarking! Look, he gave me his picture in an admiral's uniform." George V, still mindful of the fact that he was eleven years at sea with the Royal Navy, and once commanded H. M. S. Meiampus, wears his trousers creased down the side, sailor fashion, to this day (see cut). As a "midshipmite" he wore a smart sea jacket, carried...
...announced yesterday by A. W. Samborski '26. Director of Intramural Athletics, that class baseball would officially get under way today. Some men have already reported and received their uniform, and all who have not should do so at the Soldier Field Locker Building this afternoon...
Practically all the coaches at the meeting voiced their disapproval of the present method of officiating and urged some change. Coach E. A. Wachter, University mentor, stated that the referees were not uniform in their rulings and that many were over-technical. Only Oswald Tower, of Andover, head of the joint rules committee, defended the referees saying that a great deal of the strictness in a game depended on the playing and not so much on the officiating...
...White House hurried Captain Einar Paul Lundborg, of the Swedish Royal Flying Corps, rescuer of General Umberto Nobile in the Arctic, to pay his respects to President Hoover. He wore a brand new uniform. Three Washington tailors had made it for him in three hours when his trunk failed to follow him promptly from Manhattan...
...much loved as delighted in children, and so the long terraces of the Tuilleries gardens were reserved pour les enfants des soldats de La Grande Armee. Alongside the children on other terraces were les blesses, crippled, blinded perhaps, but every man in shining uniform, rigid and silent as they gave the Last Salute, many with streaming eyes...