Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy nurse ... I am now working longer hours for less pay than I received as an Ensign, without the honor of wearing the uniform of my country...
They were the second largest women's service branch. The Coast Guard's SPARs numbered 9,745; the women marines 19,000. There were 82,000 WAVES in uniform. Considering the difference in size between the Army & Navy, women were carrying a proportionately far greater load in the Navy. The WACs, still struggling to fill their quota, numbered only...
...boys took practical advantage of the situation immediately. J. Morgan Dester appeared at the next muster in full regalia with all his stripes and complete allowance of brass fully displayed. Felix Locke reputedly spent the afternoon on the docks, looking for a little salt spray on his uniform no doubt, while others, following Lt. Beckham's subtle advice, got their saltiness directly from Cowie Hall. "Pop" Kellogg was walking down the street with a copy of Navy Regs in hand, memorizing that article on saluting in case any unwary Apprentice Seaman or above should cross his path without due formalities...
Among others to whom V-E day will not bring the promise of speedy repatriation are some 400,000 refugees of the Spanish civil war, a great many of them in France, and thousands of Poles in & out of uniform, scattered from Scotland to Calcutta...
...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...