Word: standard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lift up the bloody-red standard...
...National Socialist storm troopers liked the snappy tune and text so well that they very soon adopted the entire twelve lines, almost without alterations. Only in the last two lines, the bloody-red standard had to be replaced by the swastika standard, and the proposed reversal of the "Jewish throne" was substituted for the program of protecting the Soviet Union: "Die Hakenkreuzfahne zum Himmel empor; wir stürzen den jüdischen Thron." The choice of Higher and Higher therefore was rather appropriate for the occasion, as hosts as well as guests could silently accompany the band with their...
...news placards, and your bawling news boys with their "read all about it" trumpet call, really do announce those headlines to everyone within earshot. Our people just yell vaguely and you can never make out what they are saying, but this particular news placard of the Evening Standard just said "Peace Threat." In fact, having already between us killed about 100,000 people, the highly civilized countries of Europe are suddenly threatened with Peace. That such a prospect should be described as a disaster is some small indication of the state of mind to which we are all degenerating...
...Army posts in Texas, Wyoming, Maryland, Illinois and New York, soldiers for the last year have worn a new, experimental uniform. Instead of the olive drab standard since War I, the color was a sporty slate blue. Instead of baggy breeches, rounded below the knees for leggings, trousers hung straight and trim. Tunics cut loosely at the shoulders made for more comfort and utility in the field...
Another entry from Thomas Beck's stable meanwhile made news of a different color. To its staff of European correspondents Collier's added a cartoonist: brilliant, New Zealand-born David Low, political caricaturist for the London Evening Standard. Low will send Collier's a weekly drawing from London via radio...