Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Premier & Generalissimo used to affect a garb as simple as Hitler's or Stalin's, today appears in resplendent uniform with the spruce, German-trained troops of "Chiang's Own" on posters splashed widely about China (see cut). From Shanghai arrived last week the best picture yet of Chiang's grim, steel-helmeted, Prussian-disciplined regulars advancing recently at Lotien in the teeth of Japanese fire which sprawled some grotesquely as they fell (see cut). Old-style Chinese troops, such as still compose most of the country's forces, would have fled in floppy straw...
...while he was playing for the Braves, several adverse decisions by Umpire Bill Klem annoyed Casey. He turned to Umpire Klem, half tore off his own shirt, snarled: "Here, wear our uniform for a while...
...limped on the field with the much needed aid of a cane and took his place in the press stands definitely a side-line figure until after the Davidson game, although he may be able to take a limited part in practices later this week. Chief Boston reported in uniform, but he didn't look very much like the Tiger hunter he was last Saturday. The exact nature of his injury is not easy to determine from his actions, it seems to be mainly a matter of favoring the spot that hurts most. Whether or not he will be able...
...Warner Bros.). As different from the cinema's typical period romance as champagne from sack, Ernest Vajda's figmentary episode in the life of 18th Century Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...
...Wrestler Leo Mortensen of Glendale, Calif. - also known as "Milo the Strong Man" - as he skillfully pinned the shoul ders of one Gene Bowman to the mat. A few minutes later a much stronger burst of applause greeted Wrestler Mortensen's sturdy sister Clara as, clad in a uniform which resembled a two-piece bathing suit, she climbed into the ring for a feature match with chunky Maria Gardini. After one fall apiece, Wrestler Mortensen, only moderately flushed by her exertions, suddenly lifted Wrestler Gardini over her head, spun her around a few times, slammed her dizzy...