Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sprinting through the snow shortly before 5 A. M. went a group of resolute figures in the mustard-colored uniform of the Japanese Army, lugging with them a few machine guns. They dashed through the Premier's gates and with rifle butts stove in the Premier's door. Rushing in they found a Japanese of medium height with a heavily wrinkled face, small clipped white mustache and nearly bald head whose sleeping kimono flapped about his knees in the wintry gusts from the broken door...
Last week in Walter Reed General Hospital, Washington, eleven swords in highly polished scabbards lay neatly spaced upon a horseshoe table. Behind each sword sat a general officer of the Army in full-dress uniform. In front of the table, nervously eyeing the eleven swords, sat an undistinguished, heavy-set man named Joseph Silverman Jr. who had made his everlasting fortune buying & selling surplus Army equipment. Also in front of the table, eyeing the eleven swords even more nervously, sat Colonel Joseph I. McMullen, long time legal adviser to the Assistant Secretary of War. Opening was a general court-martial...
...active Navy command like his father, and because in recent years he has taken special interest in the Royal Air Force, Post Office civil servants were further startled last week when the Sovereign commanded that on the new waist-length stamps he is to appear in naval uniform, bareheaded...
...Imperial Fleet, died in 1934, only Japanese schoolboys still remembered the details of his famed victories. Last week Biographer Falk, himself a onetime sea dog, paid Admiral Togo's career the meticulous sympathy of one naval officer for another. Author Falk never attempted to penetrate through the uniform, but his comprehensive account of modern Japanese naval history gave Togo Heihachiro a hero's part. Not by polishing up the handle of the big front door but by hard work, taciturn zeal and plenty of fighting skill did Togo become Admiral of the Son of Heaven's navy...
History 1, rightly entitled to its reputation as the best organized course in Harvard, makes a good provision for uniform treatment among the thralls of the various petty tyrants. After the examinations have been taken but before they are marked, a solemn assembly is called in which all the princes are gathered about their shining emperor, a concrete embodiment of the principle of Unity. There it is decided and decreed just what shall constitute a good answer to each question, and the underlings go out with fairly uniform standards to judge the blue books...