Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the centre of the rainsoaked grave of Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...while Lee was on leave at Arlington, a rabid Abolitionist named John Brown, with five Negroes and thirteen whites, stormed and captured Harper's Ferry Arsenal. Terror and violence were in the air. A small band of militia attacked; Brown held his own. The next day relief came, the U. S. Marines! At their head rode Colonel Robert E. Lee. The arsenal was recaptured. Brown, whose soul was to go marching on, was captured...
Died. James Ambrose Gallivan, 61, U. S. Representative from Massachusetts; following a heart attack; in Arlington, Mass. A South Boston Democrat, Representative Gallivan was elected to the House in 1914, and, except for a two-year interval (1921-23), was re-elected each term. Picturesque of language, he packed the galleries when he spoke. Colleagues on both sides of the aisle mourned...
Election of six members of the class of 1929, to the Gamma chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the honorary society of the Engineering School, was announced last night. Those to receive the honor are Grover Aruel Chenoweth '29, of Arlington; Frank Holton Elberfield '29, of South Boston; Malcolm Osborne Gibson '29, of Joplin, Missouri; Don Swint Greer '29, of Cambridge; Philip Ernest Nokes '29, of Boston; and George Alfred Sawin, Jr., '29, of Edgewood, Pennsylvania...
...modernizing of Shakespeare is just a fad," Fritz Leiber, veteran Shakespearian star, walking off the stage into his dressing-room at the Arlington Theatre, explained to a CRIMSON representative. "It appeals to those people who are always seeking novelty in a thing, while the company likes it because it breaks up the repertoire...