Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Henri HonoréGiraud, his white uniform crinkled, stepped out of the giant C-54 transport at Washington's Bolling Field last week, his squinting eyes focused on a shimmering collection of silver stars and gold braid. Generals and admirals were there in profusion to greet him on his arrival from North Africa-but nary a striped pants diplomat or even a State Department functionary on routine protocol...
Then the general went back to his own quarters (but only for a fresh uniform) and started on the messages and orders of the second day. His only propitiatory gesture to the gods of war and luck had been a judicious rubbing of his seven pocket pieces-a collection of old coins which includes a cartwheel silver dollar, a British five-guinea piece and a French franc...
Columbia College's big war plant is under youthful, owlish Acting Dean Nicholas McDowell McKnight (21). An old China hand (cigaret advertising), he later served as aide to the college's late beloved Dean Herbert Edwin Hawkes. When Dean Hawkes died, McKnight was in the uniform of a lieutenant, enrolled as a Columbia Naval student. To fill Hawkes's civilian shoes, the Navy inactivized McKnight. The lieutenant has since been as inactive as seven beavers...
Most puzzling factor to the veterans is the eagerness with which civilian clad V-mates are awaiting the first uniform issues: Anxious to get the feel of ordinary clothes again, they can only look on in wonder at bell-bottoms which have been purchased with personal funds...
...Mexicans and Negroes and all the rest of the zoot-suit fraternity want to avoid trouble, there is a very simple way. Just get out of a zoot suit and into a uniform or a pair of overalls...