Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walser, a dark lad with curly hair, was "commissar," and Ishmael, who wears a wisp of black mustache, was "vice commissar" of a secret group calling itself "C?C" (Curiosity Club). Its members, 24 boys, nine girls, all wore a uniform of black shirt, black breeches and black boots. Male members also were expected to grow mustaches. Meeting in members' houses, they discussed sex, atheism and a program they distilled from Plato, Aristotle and Edward Bellamy's Utopia. Specific points in their program: less restrictive marriage laws, more sex education, a plan (a kind of first cousin...
...site of a unique experiment in ski tramways. Since last spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...
Chinese Into "Japanese." Both sides have tried masquerading in uniforms of the other side to pull off surprise attacks, but the Chinese claim it is too easy to spot a Japanese in Chinese uniform because the Japanese have a characteristic swaggering shuffle acquired in childhood as a result of wearing wooden sandals. Every guerrilla headquarters has at least 100 Japanese uniforms, complete with helmets and leather boots...
Heavy boots of the sort worn by party members when in uniform gave a good clue to the identity of the window smashers and firebugs...
...Dressed in his uniform as Admiral of the Fleet, King George, accompanied by the Duke of Kent and members of the Cabinet, led the Empire's observance of Armistice Day with the traditional ceremony at Whitehall's Cenotaph. This year no madman's cry of "Stop all this hypocrisy. You are deliberately preparing for war," shattered the two-minute silence...