Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most authentic shot: Ted Hackett III wearing the white towel-scarf which Hollywood juveniles use off-stage as though it were a uniform...
Thus far the headsmen employed have been "usually butchers by trade." They are not yet wearing the ceremonial full dress prescribed by Captain Goring who delights to set fashions and even designed his own uniform as German Air Minister. Thus far the butchers have scorned to wear masks. Assistants bind the condemned man, shave his neck and hold him down squarely against the block. A state's attorney reads the verdict of Death, cries. "Executioner do your duty!" Not bad fellows, several butchers have treated the condemned to hearty meals at their own expense the night before execution, supplying...
...died a year ago, found life lonely. Last week he enrolled at the Massachusetts State Police Training School, to become a State Trooper. Last Sunday he appeared in his pulpit dressed as usual. Presently he will roar up on his motorcycle, preach in a trooper's blue uniform...
...tattered brown suit, patched with green and purple, which hung loosely on a headless figure holding in his hands the cup and pencils of a street beggar. A miniature girlish figure clung to the belt. The title was: "Investigation Suit, with Midget Attached." Another pattern, "Office Uniform, Neat yet Impressive," showed the dummy clothed in a blue suit, white waistcoat and wing collar, a prominent gold chain suspended across the expansive stomach. "Fancy Dress Costume, for Fete Days on His Yacht" showed a headless Long John Silver clad in pirate's costume, a crutch tagged "1929" under...
...James need display no false modesty; he has not failed; A "tall, striding man in mussed uniform and muddy boots" dominates these four hundred odd pages...