Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...test starts out with a 45-minute session of physics and chemistry. A sample question is: "A body actually in motion in a straight line with no external forces acting upon it will . . ." And then the student underlines one of four possible answers, in this case . . . "continue in uniform motion indefinitely...
...Wally's favorite models was Sergeant Alexander Woollcott, star reporter for The Stars and Stripes. Woollcott, elegant of uniform and gait, swooning at the sound of a tire blowout, was pictured with Reporter Hudson Hawley, whom Wally made famous as the "Salut-ing Demon." In the hectic offices of The Stars and Stripes, Wally found other models: Editor Harold Ross, now editor of The New Yorker; Poet Tip Bliss, whose dog tried to bite General Pershing on his only visit to the office; Colyumnist Franklin Pierce Adams (F. P. A.); Mark Watson, now Sunday editor of the Baltimore...
...press last week, janitors and lollers might have looked twice at a sight in a hearing room in the House Office Building. Even so, those who did look blinked. Up to testify before the Dies Committee on UnAmerican Activities strode a militant-looking Hitler counterpart clad in a brownshirt uniform and Sam Browne belt, with a dab of mustache and a Führerish haircut. Cameras clicked and Chairman Dies, who had lately been short of headlines, beamed...
...surface a minuscule singing, beer-bibbing and marching society, was in reality a hateful Nazi network with some 500,000 U.S. sympathizers. Last week Chairman Dies made a timely move by recalling Witness Metcalfe to repeat and amplify his previous testimony, having him dress in his Bund uniform for photographers...
...days later, when Leader Kuhn turned up in uniform to address a Bund meeting at Union City, N.J., a crowd of 2,000 anti-Nazis interrupted his dinner at Bund headquarters with boos and brickbats, bum's-rushed him fuming out of town...