Word: arming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Advisers will be recognizable by the wearing of red arm bands, which will be distributed by members of the Advisory Committee to advisers as they enter the dining halls. The practice of eating in company with Freshmen will continue for 10 days...
...finishing liqueur. Alma Mater Parmalee needs seven points to win. Star halfback "Red" Wade sits on the sidelines because his father does not believe in rough sports and the coach thinks he ("Red") has been drinking. One minute to play -vindication-substitution-"Red" Wade has the pigskin under his arm. The Galloping Ghost is off-long strides, mighty stiff-arm, eely hips, a broken field-a touchdown, a kicked goal, and victory. "Red", of course, is vindicated before the college, his father, his sweet-lipped Sally Rogers...
...remarks on the dyestuff industry he strayed into the future to propose that chemists could and should discover catalytic chemicals that would counteract the muscle poisons which we now have to sleep off. Instead of going to bed for the night, one would have a shot in the arm or a pink pill, change his shirt and bid every one "Good Night" with a cheery morning smile. Other chemicals-not to call them drugs-might be evolved for stimulating mental activity without robbing Peter to pay Paul, as do Cocaine, alcohol, etc. Thus, out of the test tube, a synthetic...
Divorced. Captain Charles Nungesser, French ace who had brought down 83 enemy planes, who had been wounded 17 times, who had lost an arm, a leg, a chin; by Mrs. Consuelo Hatmaker Nungesser, daughter of the onetime confidential secretary to Cornelius Vanderbilt; at Paris. She charged "incompatibility."† In 1923, romantic patriots pointed with pride to a double wedding at Dinard, France, where Miss Hatmaker, 19, married Ace Nungesser; where her mother married Capt. William Waters...
From the depths of a plump arm chair at the Hotel Plaza, Manhattan, James R. Sheffield, vacationing U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, frankly confessed to newsgatherers last week his bafflement by the Mexican crisis: "None of us is able intelligently to diagnose the condition between the Church and State in Mexico. . . . No foreigner can understand the Mexican nature. Even men who have lived for twenty-five years in the nation do not understand the mental processes of the people...