Word: dressed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Chicago, George Series, 15, and Edward Mendenhall Jr., 16, went off to join the U. S. Army. They took with them: two bayonets of the Franco-Prussian War, one bayonet of the Civil War, one plain bayonet, one fancy dress sword...
Both Heiden and Gardella will dress for the game, and Dick Harlow's decision to keep them out of the fray probably results from his desire to have the team at full strength for Yale the following week. The Harvard captain participated in most of the work yesterday afternoon and could undoubtedly play against Brown if he were sorely needed. Gardella has a capable understudy in Mississippi Bill Brown, so his absence will not slow up the Harlow offense too much...
...modern imitations of classicism, Prokofieff's Classical Symphony has received wide praise. To me it seems a weak-kneed, rather precious imitation of Haydn in modern harmonics. Probably it is somewhat satiric; still it is a good example of the failure of modern composers to recreate in twentieth-century dress the music of the eighteenth century. The spark which lit up the formal pattern of a classical symphony cannot be recaptured merely by reproducing the exteriors. Something else, whatever it is that makes any music great, must also be there...
Parkman, De Voto explained, was "Hasty Pudding man," one of Boston's best. He was offended by the rough talk and dress of the pioneers, and stressed these and other picturesque but relatively inconsequential details, but didn't sense the real significance of the tremendous westward migration...
...Army (now 1,500,000) was never as big as France's, and France's Army fell. Furthermore, Britain's Army lost plenty in Flanders. Britain's small reformed Army would have more than it could handle in the face of a full-dress Blitzkrieg. The only way to beat the Blitz, argued Wintringham, was for 4,000,000 civilians to teach themselves how to fight democratically, efficiently and freed of the myths and snobbery of military convention. The only way to meet total attack is total defense. Britain must fight now not to the last...