Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Warminster Military Academy was founded last fall when the Balleses bought a farmhouse near Norristown. Parents were stupid or careless enough to entrust their offspring to this institution. Tuition: $1,100 a year plus some $5 a week for laundry plus $74 for a uniform...
Action by Mob. It was true that most of the men still in uniform (the Army has already released 5,000,000) had seen little or no fighting. But they could be just as homesick as men who had. Most of them, even many of the officers, were conscripts and they had never had any liking for soldiering. They were frustrated by idleness. They had never fully understood why the war was fought. To most of them no one had ever bothered to explain the Army's postwar job. Many who had heard explanations of a sort thought...
...cuff editorial judgment of General Morgan's remarks: "It was an insult to six million tortured dead." Walter Winchell, who writes for the Hearst press, said it louder: "Morgan must not only be fired, he must be repudiated by His Majesty's, Government and stripped of his uniform...
...keep-off-the-grass variety. Most of us lead a cluttered life and it seems to me that if some of the unimportant things could be decided for us it would give us more freedom to develop as individuals. I never want to impose on the Wellesley girls a uniform and one locker . . . but I found that even under such a discipline, a girl could express her individuality in the very way that she wore...
...dirty waiting room filled with dated copies of the Daily Express and France Libre. But if he was not on time, he was barked at louder: "Handsome Mrs. Pollock would glower at me from behind her flower-and-chocolate-laden desk, and her pneumatic Jane, the American secretary in uniform, would pretend to be engrossed in her typing, so that she could spare no sympathy." A major warned him: "Please be careful, my friend. You must not give a false impression of slackness you know. You are being trained for a position of great responsibility. Punctuality is considered most vital...