Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kennedy, 29, and Missouri's Marion Bennett, 32, were the chief victims. The House decided it had to stop. From now on House page boys would have to dress like Senate pages: black tie, white shirt, blue serge suit-with knickers. The pages rose as one boy. A uniform, yes. Knickers, never! The House yielded...
...Sixth Army's General Walter Krueger, hero of the Philippines, had turned in his uniform and was living in retirement in San Antonio. The Marine Corps' fire-eating General "Howlin' Mad" Smith had holed up in La Jolla, Calif...
...their last day in Cape Town the King & Queen donned their best finery (an admiral's uniform with the blue ribbon of the Garter for him; a gown of pale crepe and Queen Mary's borrowed diamond tiara for her), to preside at the opening of South Africa's Parliament -the first British monarchs ever to do so. The King spoke for six minutes, first in English, then in Afrikaans. That night the family boarded the 14-car royal gold-and-cream train, to continue their conquests over 5,000 miles for the next eight weeks...
From Blues to Khaki. Once it was a standing joke that Harrow men could get into Magdalen only if there weren't any Eton men on the waiting list. Now undergraduates come from all over, wearing the new uniform of corduroy trousers, Army shirts and "demob" jackets. It is no longer possible to tell a poet from, a Blue (a varsity athlete) by his dress...
Although she never wears a uniform, as do London's "bobbyettes," Miss Taylor has the same authority as her masculine counterparts. Hers has always been a specialized job, however, for earlier in her police career she investigated cases where children were the victims of parents' sexual troubles, situations that might have proved embarrassing for male members of the old vice squad...