Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four undergraduates received the Lee Wade and Boylston Prizes for Elocution last night in a competition which featured speeches of the most uniform excellence in recent years, in the opinion of Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking...
...Mountain a poor family within a few rice grains of starvation sells the oldest 'daughter, Kimi, to a procurer when she is not yet 16. She is apprenticed to a house in the Yoshiwara district of Tokyo, where the streets are well kept and the architecture more uniform than in most other quarters. When her year's apprenticeship is up and she is ready for work, a rich businessman named Yamano takes a liking to her, reserves her for himself. Naive, lonely, she is soon fond...
...Cabinet finally had the pleasure of seeing Mrs. Roosevelt arrive accompanied by her husband with a row of black buttons down his white vest. ¶To mark the fact that he last week completed three years in office, Franklin Roosevelt on Sunday took Mrs. Roosevelt, his aides in full uniform, Vice President Garner, six members of his Cabinet to National (Episcopal) Cathedral, heard Bishop James Edward Freeman sermonize for their benefit on the text, "I am the Way and the Truth...
Bursting with excitement, Herr Doktor Oberbürgermeister ("Lord Mayor") Günter Riesen of Cologne buttoned himself into his sausage-tight Nazi Storm Troop uniform and took his stance, shortly after noon, facing the Square. To Rhinelanders in whose bones is bred Die Wacht am Rhein with its ringing, tingling question: "The Rhine, the Rhine, the German Rhine! Who guards tonight our Stream Divine?" This was the most blissful moment in 17 years. Adam's apples gulped as on three bicycles the very first real GERMAN SOLDIERS, trim lads in grim steel helmets, swerved into the Square...
...ARTILLERY BATTALIONS who were soon to star the Rhineland with nine GLORIOUS GARRISONS. In Cologne ecstasy was indescribable as soldiers, Soldiers, SOLDIERS with red car nations peeping from their belts came goose-stepping smartly into the Cathedral Square and were reviewed by a real GERMAN GENERAL in full uniform with twinkling medals, Lieut. General Günther von Kluge. As a climax a tiny Rhineland girl toddled up to von Kluge, gave the general his own big bouquet of red car nations. After this solemn moment all was jollification and singing of "Now we have soldiers again!" in the streets...