Word: camp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...through a long string of war comics in a film, The Better 'Ole, based on Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfather's characterization. Old Bill with his familiar pipe and muffler, little Alf, his great worry, and the tyrant corporal, muddle through the war somehow. On the occasion of a camp entertainment, Old Bill and Little Alf are sewed into a stuffed horse to take part in a play entitled Black Beauty or A Horse's Sacrifice. In the middle of the act, a hasty retreat is ordered. No one has time to extricate Bill and Alf from their equine...
Black Boy. Into the brutality of a prizefighter's camp strays a giant Negro, peaceable, with song in his heart. Paul Robeson, one-time (1918) all-American end, star basketball player, Phi Beta Kappa, of Rutgers College, more recently famed concert singer, enacts the role of the black boy. The white man's ways force him into the fight game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene...
...James A. Stillman; to Miss Lena Wilson, 18, daughter of a Scotch-Canadian backwoodsman. The bridegroom is the son of Banker James A. Stillman, whose marital complications have long figured in the headlines of the daily news. He met his fiancèe seven years ago at the Stillman camp in Canada, when she was doing odd jobs around the Stillman house; was attracted by her personality, innocence, beauty, cooking. In Canada said Mother Fifi Stillman warmly, while Miss Wilson sat silent, composed: "I am delighted with Bud's choice. . . . Mr. Stillman is as pleased...
...when it was declared. Dick and Madge both went out, scorning what they then deemed his cowardly behavior. When they come back, like all those who went through it, they realize the utter no tense of medals, knighthoods,--labels, as they put it. Tom returns from the "conchy" camp at Boulogne, half-starved. The Father, entrenching himself behind his knighthood, declares that he will oust the "conchy" from his home. When his two other children, disgusted with their pater's pre-war outlook, declare they will go too if he persists, the absolute breach between the pre-war generation...
...candidacy. They expect him to poll about 200,000 votes and cut heavily into Mr. Smith's downstate Dry strength. Thus, with the Republican Drys split and with Mr. Brennan looming in the Wet districts of Cook County (Chicago), East St. Louis, and Peoria, the Democratic camp has reached a peak of hopefulness...