Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Erich von Stroheim first turned up in Hollywood, a polite, conceited fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became...
...which some experts rate him a more valuable player than Iceman Grange of Illinois ever was. Entering another season of seeing his name in big headlines and hearing it thundered from the stands, drilling with his teammates in the new Army jersey of gold with a red stripe, Cadet Cagle must last week have realized two things about Army football this autumn: 1) the Army is about a week behind other teams in practice; 2) the Army has what looks like the hardest schedule of any team this year -Harvard, Yale, South Dakota, Illinois, Ohio Wesleyan, Notre Dame, Stanford...
Master Vizay stands on a raised platform in the dance hall with stick in each hand. At exhibitions of cadet stupidity he knocks his sticks together vigorously, shrills his orders loudly: "Ready! Toe in first position. Point! . . . No! No! No! Stop!" (Knocks sticks together vexedly...
...Dartmouth, pipe-smoking naval officers were sprawled on the Devon-green grass listening to the clear crack of willow bat on cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...
...Prior to Cadet Parham in West Point's history, many a Negro had applied for admission. Twelve got in, three were graduated as second lieutenants. The last Negro Cadet was James B. Alexander of Ohio who entered in 1918, resigned after six months. The cost to the U. S. of making an Army officer out of each West Point cadet, white or black...