Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon this European trip, Sir Hari took with him his aide-de-camp, one Captain C. W. Arthur, whose duty was to safeguard him from danger in all its forms. This position, virtually an appointment by the British Raj, calls for a man of incorruptible honor with the highest sense of duty...
...regimental organization-provisional regiments of battalions having been formed in emergency. In that year, Congress ordered otherwise. Colonel Lejeune was made a Brigadier General and he helped to reorganize the corps along the lines of the U. S. Army. In 1917 he was made Commander at Quantico Training Camp. Not until May of 1918 was he ordered overseas. He commanded the 64th Infantry Brigade, the 4th Marine Brigade. He was named Major General. Late in July, he took command of the 2nd Division. Who needs to recite the familiar roster of its glories? Belleau Wood, Vaux, Saint Mihiel, Blanc Mont...
...warning went unheeded, his bicycle was stolen, his ship left without him, his girl was kidnapped. Searching for a short cut to town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over...
...next minute, seven Egyptian students wearing effendi dress drew their revolvers and riddled the car with bullets. Sir Lee Stack fell to the bottom of the automobile mortally wounded; he had been hit in the stomach, hand, foot. Captain P. K. Campbell, aide-de-camp, was slightly wounded in the chest; and the chauffeur, an Englishman...
...Berkeley, Calif., Walter Camp and others, to the estimated number of 100,000, sat beneath "Tight Wad Hill" and beheld California suddenly turn upon Stanford, methodically start rending her to bits. Late in the afternoon, Stanford grew annoyed, flung passes, drew from far behind to a 20-to-20 tie. It was the year's most notable Pacific Coast footballing, but indecisive since neither team had been beaten. If there is a titular shade, it favors Stanford, tied but this once to California's twice...