Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through cheering crowds Victor Roosevelt drove to the Capitol to start his mopping up. At the side door of the House wing, he shed his silk topper, his dark overcoat and revealed himself in his new uniform, a handsome ash-grey cutaway with trousers to match. The White House secretariat-Son James, Stephen Early, Marvin Mclntyre-racked their toppers in a row on the trunk behind the Presidential tonneau. and the official party entered the Capitol...
...Government make its press mind its manners. Scheduled to appear at the gala were some broad Dutch comedians famed for an act in which the chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain uniform and smudge mustache as Adolf Hitler. At the last minute this political Dutch clowning was killed off the program and substituted were some harmless non-political British buffoons...
Parietal rules which went into effect yesterday show a certain amount of variation among the seven Houses as to the application of them, although the rules were voted as uniform for the whole House unit...
Nonetheless the amenities had to be preserved. Not knowing quite whether he was the Governor of Edward VIII or George VI, Sir Murchison Fletcher donned his black & gold uniform, his cocked hat with white feathers and had himself ferried out to U. S. S. Indianapolis. If Sir Murchison's stout British heart suffered any anxiety that Franklin Roosevelt might greet him with the same sort of bunny hug lately practiced on President Gabriel Terra of Uruguay (see cut) and other non-British notables, his fears were quickly dissipated. The President shook hands at arm's length, charmed...
...every brain had its electric individuality. Investigating, they made several series of oscillograms of the brain waves of 44 healthy students. Since the waves change in character according to the physical well-being of the body and the activity of the mind, Travis & Gottlober tried to get records under uniform conditions by having the subjects lie down in a dark room, try to keep their minds blank. Then Travis & Gottlober and two other researchers tried to see if they could tell which of the oscillograms came from the same brains. In Science last week they reported that in a long...