Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grey, but millions of Londoners lined the route of the royal procession from Buckingham Palace to Westminster. WRENs in uniform perched on the Admiralty roof; pajama-clad residents of Carlton House Terrace clung to chimneys. The cheers swelled in ear-splitting waves. By historic chance, V-J day came on the day the new Labor-dominated Parliament opened. In one burst Britons were hailing victory, the Crown and Socialism...
...newly painted crimson-&-gold state coach drawn by the famed Windsor greys, Their Majesties-the King in naval uniform, the Queen in a turquoise blue suit with feathered hat to match-smiled and bowed toward the tumult. Ahead of the postilions, a State Guard of Household Cavalry clop-clopped proudly. Escorted by motorcycle outriders, the Comptroller of the Lord Chamberlain's Office, Lieut. Colonel Sir Terence Nugent, rode clasping a suitcase in which rested the Imperial Crown. Not since World War II began had the jewel-studded emblem left its sanctuary to be displayed...
...awakened at 4 a.m. He sleepily rose from his prison cot, donned his seven-star uniform, shuffled into the hushed courtroom. Nonagenarian Marshal Henri Philippe Petain sat nervously at first, then fell into a half-doze...
...woke up, looked around unsteadily, picked up his gold-braided cap, shuffled off. Seven hours later, shorn of his Marshal's uniform, he deplaned at bleak Portalet Fortress in the Pyrenees...
...staff. Pictures of over 1,000 members of the class had to be secured somehow or other, and pictures of all sizes were sent in by about half the class, while Red Book pictures were used for the others. In the final product, however, all the pictures will appear uniform...