Word: uniformities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only are the Cambridge police bothered these days by teen-age delinquency, hoodlumism, vandalism and fallen arches, but now, worse than over, a band of foreign conspirators, a sort of Bund, is growing up around the Business School, latest reports show. The new group, all in uniform, are called the "Black Ties" and are led by a domineering little man named Tito Bizal. At various hours of the day their haunting battle song sweeps up through the Square, and the green statute of Jawn Harvard gets greener as it hears...
British troops in France captured seven enemy soldiers in a dugout. On one of them the German uniform hung limply. He was very small, very dirty and very frightened...
...duty in Rome, Mrs. McCormick shuns correspondent's uniform, but also suppresses her yen for exotic hats. She lives in the Grand Hotel with the rest of the Times staff, where she rubs elbows with senior Allied officers, high Italian political and social figures. As one correspondent remarked, "She looks as though she ought to be home minding grandbaby or puttering around in the garden, but you change your mind when she starts talking...
...wartime manpower shortage has little if anything to do with the supremacy of Helen Sobel. Eleven Life Masters are now in uniform, but the championship sessions at Manhattan's Hotel Astor showed a better quality of play than in prewar years. (It also set four new attendance records-daily average, 100 tables.) The Culbertson system, basis of all contract bidding, has been modified, streamlined and so vastly improved that oldtime experts are hard put to keep up with the latest bidding methods (the opening two-bid, once the strongest forcing call, is now used as a weak...
What happens when six real Marines take Woodrow in hand and forcibly escort him home, his ill-fitting uniform bristling with extemporaneous decorations, is the stuff which makes Hail the Conquering Hero one of the year's most ingratiating pictures. When grateful townspeople solemnly burn the mortgage on the old Truesmith homestead and make plans to erect a suitable monument in the town square, Woodrow's misery seems to have reached its bearable limit. But it touches new depths when, in one of the most uproarious political campaigns in cinema history, the desperately reluctant Woodrow is nominated...