Word: brig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigation threw the officials of the boat into an uproar. There were veiled threats regarding the throwing of college boys into the brig and taking them back to New York. Passengers snickered. Finally, however, the new flag was retrieved and revealed to one and all for what it was, the most important half of a pair of striped and vividly coloured pajamas that have adorned the closet and person of a Dunster Senior for lo these many months...
...California put in at Los Angeles last week with George Albert Boyog, 20-year-old enlisted man, fast in its brig and candidate for the title of the Navy's most original thinker. Reason: While the battleship was 150 miles out at sea, Gob Boyog had seized a gun, tried to hold up the paymaster...
...moved into action the white-turbaned Pathans and Sikhs of the Peshawar and Nowshera Brigades, the tough, kilted Scots of the Highland Light Infantry, to a total of 15.000 men. as well as planes, mountain artillery, light tanks. Commanding was a hardened Scot of a professional British Army family. Brig.-General Claude John Eyre Auchinleck, advised by Acting Chief of Staff Major-General Eric de Burgh and Director of Military Operations and Intelligence Brig.-General Alan Fleming Hartley. This impressive trio and all their men and metal were obviously far more than the Haji's son warranted. Britain was determined...
...advance guard of an imaginary enemy and seize strong positions before the enemy's main force arrived. At 6 a. m. one morning the mechanized cavalry moved out, followed by two infantry battalions, followed by engineers in cars which unreeled telephone cable as they ran, followed by Brig. General Ford in a station wagon, followed by the tanks, followed by the 4.400 men (peace strength) of the Division aboard 525 trucks and batteries of 75's rolling along at 30 m.p.h. on balloon tires. An unmotorized division could not have made the required march in less than...
...Brig. General Charles H. Cole last week made the painful discovery that a State convention cannot always deliver Massachusetts Democracy in the primary. No candidate for Governor of that State ever entered a primary campaign with better patched fences, stouter political lines than General Cole. Governor Ely was for him. Senator Walsh was for him. The deathlessly faithful following of Alfred Emanuel Smith...