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...this "blood, sweat and tears" you read about was done while wearing the fatigue uniform, and I have seen scores of my Infantry buddies die in their blood-stained fatigues...
...book, The Origins of Some Naval Terms and Customs, Lieut. Commander R. G. Lowry, R.N., writes as follows: A neckerchief usually of black silk was worn around the neck, and was sometimes used so as to protect the coat from the pigtail, but its real use was as a sweat rag worn around the neck or forehead; it was generally black in colour because this showed the dirt least. The black silk was in general use some years before Nelson's death; it may have been worn as mourning for him following the precedent of the ship...
...wild rout that followed the battle, Brady reached Washington with his duster begrimed and his straw hat limp with sweat. But in his negative box were the first of his series of great war photographs. As soon as the plates were developed, he exhibited them in his Washington gallery. Their success was instantaneous. Wrote Humphrey's Journal: "The public is indebted to Brady of Broadway for his excellent views of grim-visaged war. . . . His are the only records of the fight at Bull Run. . . . Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and soldiers who were...
Flying weather was bad, but the young ex-sailor was enjoying the ride. His oxygen mask seemed to give him no trouble at all. But at 16,000 feet, he suddenly began to sweat and turned blue in the face. Rushed back to the field and thence to a hospital, he died within 28 hours...
...broad, and it never was much as a play. Careening through it, or pausing to leer, gag and gurgle his soup, Bobby gives it some high moments of low comedy. But most of the time he is held in chains by the script, or is in a sweat from wriggling out of them...