Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there Ambassador Tytus Filipowicz of Poland seized him by the buttonhole. Mr. Borah is no man to retreat. He repeated his opinions on the Polish Corridor, but added by way of diplomacy that he did not pretend to be completely informed. Ambassador Filipowicz drew himself up in his diplomatic uniform, with all his decorations jangling, and made the retort courteous: "I congratulate you, Senator, on your moral courage-in admitting the incompleteness of your knowledge...
...began to grow dark one of the airplanes spotted Weirman, clothed in the white uniform of a prison cook. The police surrounded the field, closed in. Policeman Joseph Campbell Jr. saw a foot sticking out of a shock of corn, ordered its owner out. Convict McGrath came out shooting and Policeman Campbell fell fatally wounded. An instant later his companions had avenged him and McGrath lay dying. Meanwhile, other policemen searched for Weirman. Finally they came upon him lying still on the ground. Desperado Weirman, seeing he could not escape, had put the muzzle of his riot...
...foster-brother Cyrena Van Gordon sang Wagner's siren song in a nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made...
Moushegian, Talbot, and Esterly were the only Crimson gridders not in uniform yesterday. None of them will see action in the contest with the Southerners. With the excellent brand of play shown by the reserve teams lately, it would not be surprizing if Coach Casey gives one of them the first call against Virginia...
Then pandemonium broke. Steam whistle cords were tied down. Flower garlands rained through the air. Loyal subjects yelled their throats out. Their Majesties, smiling, nodding, drove over brick paved streets lined with every uniform in Siam: boy scouts, girl scouts, the army, navy, police and diplomatic corps were out en masse. Even the thousands of naked children that normally clutter the streets of the city were swathed by their proud parents in bunting...