Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...playing fields of Eton, where Englishmen may or may not have won the World War, bandy-legged little Prajadhipok got some of the guts which make him a remarkable King of Siam. Later as a cadet in the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, the future Possessor of the 24 Umbrellas (Siamese symbol of Kingship) learned a thing or two about soldiering which has helped him to ride out two revolutions. Last week the weak-eyed King Prajadhipok, condemned to rule, as it were, from the operating tables of his Western oculists, was recuperating in England from his latest operation...
Private Robert Edward Lee 4th, 10, great-grandson of the Confederate general, marched in an exhibition drill of the Knickerbocker Greys, a socialite Manhattan cadet corps...
...prep schools, three from western high schools, one from the South, and one from Boston Latin School. A meeting will be held on Friday, October 26 to discuss plans for a possible Army game tea dance at the Union. Last year's tea dance at the time of the cadet invasion turned out very successfully. Afterwards the yearlings were given the privilege of entertaining their female guests at supper...
...United States Military Academy (West Point, N. Y.) is not the honor it is at most institutions. "A. B." is cadet slang for area bird a cadet being disciplined by being obliged to walk punishment tours...
...Whistler was a cadet at West Point for one year...