Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This will mark the third time that the Elis have played the University. In the two preceding matches the Crimson has scored decisive victories, but the sport was still young in the Blue camp. Playing on their home courts, the Yale racquet men, showing a deckledly improved game, are expected to exhibit a different brand of squash . Coach H. L. Cowles will accompany his charges on the trip...
Suddenly inspired, the victim enlists, is despatched to an Army camp. He lives in wooden shacks, built as temporary barracks during the War, looking like a collection of senile packing boxes, or in tents. When not drilling, he is called on to repair worn-out plumbing systems and putter around creaking stables. Many an officer, living with his family at such a camp, has had to spend his own money to make his house livable. Having no Garden of Eden, the U. S. defenders take their fun where they find it. At Fort Douglas, they have invented the game...
...records the deaths of comrades with as little flourish as he accords their myriad fly-by-night amours. "If these boys can fly two-bladers like they can fly four-posters there'll be a shortage of Huns before long." The irony of Death in a British training camp bears down heavily. Life, however, is simple: flying today, women tonight, tomorrow cannot be helped. It is not quite accurate to call the author unknown. Some of the men he names by name survived-piano-playing Larry Callahan of Chicago, for example; Violinist Albert Spalding; one-armed Alan Winslow; husky...
Voting against the President were such well-behaved Republicans as: Mr. Bacon of Long Island; Chairman Butler of the Naval Affairs Committee; Mr. Mills of New York; Chairman Snell of the Rules Committee and twice a guest of the President at White Pine Camp; and, of course, Leader Tilson...
...mistress despite the facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly...