Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wish of Blanchard & Davis to earn side money without giving up their Army careers was just too much for several sport columnists. Hearstling Bill Corum threatened to boycott them if they put on a pro uniform. In Washington, Illinois' Representative Leslie C. Arends fumed: "I thought we sent these boys to West Point* to be future officers and not pro football players...
Chicago had a war. It was a commercial war, waged with Tommy guns, grenades, sawed-off shotguns, pistols, and speeding automobiles. Its soldiers wore a unique uniform-black velvet-collared topcoat and pearl-grey hat. It was a war which enriched the language, inspired a dozen books, plays and motion pictures, and damned the Volstead...
...Blanket & the King. Karsh likes to highlight his sitters against simple settings, often an old grey army blanket pinned against the wall. When he photographed King George VI in London, the Buckingham Palace backgrounds were too ornate to set off the King's gold-braided admiral's uniform. Out came the old blanket, and His Majesty helped to hang it in place...
...Eatables" (the soldiers' name for their assignment to trucks and markets) did move the men & women who handle London's food. When the troops appeared, they walked off their jobs. So, eventually, did thousands of T.G.W.U. dock workers in resentment against the use of "blacklegs [strikebreakers] in uniform...
...Khadi is the official Congress uniform, supposed to symbolize Gandhi's cottage industry drive and to emphasize Congress leaders' connection with the toiling masses. But hand spinning is so inefficient that a khadi outfit costs as much as a good suit of English tweeds. *To Indians there are few if any callings higher than the Civil Service. A recent movie ad, stressing its subject's sacrificial devotion to her art, said: "She turned down an I.C.S. man to become a movie star...