Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shot up from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. one morning last week, tore through 2,500 mi. of stiff west wind, landed at Burbank, Calif. 12 hr. 22 min. later, more than two hours under the westbound record. The pilot was big-framed Roscoe Turner who wears a swagger uniform of his own design and used to keep a mascot lion. The plane was a Wedell-Williams speedster of the type which made the eastbound record (10 hr. 19 min.) last September...
...Vagabond danced upon the point of a needle, he was so very happy. There before his eyes lay a great feast spread. Julian Coolidge in admiral's uniform was drinking champagne out of Field Marshal Apted's sliper, and liking it. Marriman was eating a freshman's hat with caviar and coffee. There was an effulgent unity which clung to his person like a baltimore enreole. The President mounted a stop ladder to read from an early annotated edition of the daily CRIMSON. The Vagabond swooned. It was more than angel tissue could bear...
...same flawless actor he was in the stage version of "Grand Hotel." Every gesture is expressive, every look, significant. He is as much of a born actor, and arch rogue as John Barrymore. He carries off the part of the dilletante bachelor as well as Alfred Lunt were the uniform of the exiled Prince Rudolph Maximillian Von Hapsburg. But "Springtime for Henry" lacks the gay flavor and dramatic excitement that made "Reunion in Vienna" one of the most popular of the Guild offerings in the last two years...
...first sight Peter saw as his ship entered Charleston Harbor was the shelling of a U. S. Navy ship by Charleston batteries. Peter, like his uncle, was Southern to the core, but he thought he was a Unionist too. While he watched the young hotheads race each other into uniform he took a newspaper job. Beautiful Damaris Gordon complicated his situation by appearing to prefer his rival, Captain Holcombe. When his editor cut his Race Week story to tatters, with Damaris avoiding him and Holcombe forcing him into a duel. Peter felt his story was over...
...group of lawyers have already completed the first examination of other city codes similar to those needed by Cambridge. The aim of the group is to combine the fine points of several city codes into a uniform code that will adequately take care of the needs of the city in the future...