Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minks Are Different. The capacity crowd at the hearing included Mrs. McLaughlin, in a flaming red dress and huge silver bracelets; a dozen McLaughlinites; 1,500 medical students in military uniform ; a troop of irritated professors and doctors; about 500 hopeful spectators...
Each man kept his musket, powder horn, wooden canteen, knapsack and uniform. In his pocket were four months' wages in promissory notes, marketable at only two shillings to the pound. Veterans who thought this a meager reward (as most did) had the option of staying in camp until their enlistments were up. But, as Washington had shrewdly guessed, what every one wanted most was to get home...
...divorcee, one a widow, the rest spinsters. They call themselves the "Nine Old Women," although their ages range from a mere 30 to a mere 44. Their backgrounds vary from directing physical education to counseling at law. Their uniform sizes vary from a trim 16 to a firm 40. The Nine...
...Metropolitan Opera's tiny Lily Pons, in her U.S.O. overseas uniform, stood up with clenched fists and sang the Marseillaise. The crowd that heard her was motley but united on one thing: cheers for Paris. Paris was free...
Among the 853 Vandalia marksmen were many in uniform. Captain Joe Hiestand of Fort Myers, Fla., became the first four-time winner of the North American Clay Targets* by breaking 200 clay birds in a row. J. K. Stark, a 41-year-old sales manager from San Antonio, dropped into Vandalia for a day, decided to enter the National Doubles Clay Target Championship,** won with...