Practically everyone in the army wore corduroy knee-breeches, but there the uniformity ended.

Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous It is to jet upon a prince’s right?

a clear conscience

A batter's best hope for hitting one of these 90 mile-per-hour missiles that reached the plate in just less than a second was his 200 mph swing. Speeds were then measured by electronic “pitchometers”; in 1946 Bob Feller's fastball could be timed at 98.6 mph.